Olivia Joseph
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Feb
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Burgoyne Surrounded, which is about General Burgoyne being surrounded by the colonists and defeated, and so on.
People were showing their political affiliation in quilts early on in the 1800s.
And so all along, there were people who used quilts as an art form.
And so they used imagery.
They made quilts of picturing farm life, quilts picturing political life.
And there's a famous political quilt from the 30s when I believe Herbert Hoover said, prosperity is just around the corner.
And so she made a quilt block with the corner of a building and a person looking around the corner.
There's like 36 of these blocks with somebody looking around the corner.
So it's very subtle political commentary, but amusing.
So there was elephant quilts and donkey quilts and everything in the 20s.
Yeah, it happened all during the 20th century.
Yeah, so...
Quilting came to the Americas with the settlers from Europe, but I find it interesting to see some of the Eastern influences that end up in Western quilting.
And so going back to that centennial I mentioned earlier, I mentioned that there was international exhibits and there was actually a Japanese bazaar and villa that was there.
And this is 1876.
People are curious about the goods that Japan has.
I don't know if you've ever heard of Crazy Quilts.
You might have random cuts of fabric joined together that also have embroidery put on the quilt.
I think it's more so for the design, more so than the function of holding the quilt together.
there's some thoughts that the crazy quilt became more popular or kind of originated during that Victorian time because of some influence of Japanese crazed wares.
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