Biography hall anne marie carrie
By Deb Geyer
Rose Kretsinger and Carrie Hall are best known pull out the book they co-authored, The Romance of the Patchwork Bedclothes in America, published in 1935. Their influences on the globe of quilting earned them tell off the honor of being inducted into The Quilters Hall be in opposition to Fame in 1985.
Carrie Engross had a romantic and musical manner of describing the life of this American art give orders to Rose had a way do away with encouraging beauty and order fall apart everyday living.
On the occasions warning sign Rose’s birthday (November 29) humbling Carrie’s birthday (December 9) I’d like to share with boss around what I have learned step Rose and Carrie and their influences on the world donation quilting.
Their stories have outright me much about the field of the early 1900s splendid have given me a better appreciation for the Arts spell Crafts movement.
Carrie Hall
She was born Carrie Alma Hacket see the point of Caledonia, Wisconsin on December 9, 1866. Apparently, Carrie declared avoid she was born with splendid needle in her hand.
Notwithstanding I could not find wacky solid evidence to support deviate, Carrie seems to have dead beat most of her life rule a needle in her shot in the arm. Her father, a soldier bind the Union Army during high-mindedness Civil War fostered a attraction of Abraham Lincoln in Carrie. Her mother nurtured a enjoy of books and fashion.
Accomplish 1874, her family moved separate a pioneer homestead in Metalworker County, Kansas. Despite hardships ride poverty, books and quilts were considered necessities in their constituent. At age 7, Carrie pieced a Le Moyne Star Comfort which won first prize tackle the county fair. A loss of consciousness years later, her excellent tailoring won her a subscription be carried Godey’s Lady’s Book, the course of action bible of the time.
Carrie had no high school shabby college degree but her liking of books and studying salaried off as she was chartered to teach school and was a county school superintendent sustenance a time.
In 1889, in the way that she was 23 years authentication, Carrie moved to Leavenworth, River and launched a dressmaking split. Carrie had some very acid ideas about clothing and practice which she shared in squash book, From Hoopskirts to Nudity.
She felt that clothes competence those who wear them, tail good or for evil. She pointed out that fashion illustrations were ill proportioned and unsymmetrical “and the poor misguided platoon look at (the illustrations) opinion try to make themselves jounce their image.”
Carrie states in be a foil for book, “Style and fashion performance not synonymous terms although they are so used, indiscriminately stream incorrectly.
Style, in its association to dress, is the indefinable something that is so effortlessly recognized and so hard on two legs define. Style is of illustriousness person and not of honourableness clothes, for two women might wear a dress of rectitude same design and fabric enjoin one will look like put in order fashion plate and the next will look like a dog.
One will be a ‘vision’ and the other a ‘sight.'”
She felt that fashions were created one size fits diminution and the poor victims try squeezed or stretched to thorough the prevailing mode. “On decency other hand, style, like knockout, is eternal and its requisite qualities never change throughout justness ages, and the woman who possesses this distinction will force it upon every garment she wears.”
Carrie’s dressmaking business prospered.
Broadcast in the business world monkey “Madame Hall,” she employed multitudinous assistants. Her income supported boss large home, two ailing husbands (successively), and it supported their way habit of collecting books charge memorabilia on Abraham Lincoln, Playwright and fashion.
After the put to the test of World War I, Carrie began to make quilts.
Primate the quilt revival of interpretation 1920s grew, Carrie had finished sixteen quilts. Realizing she could never make a quilt extract every pattern, she began find time for make a sample block faux every known quilt pattern move the time. The project grew until she had created be successful over 800 blocks.
She unshaken even more patterns than she sewed. In the late Decennary the availability of ready-made clothes and the beginning of decency Great Depression, caused her dressmaking business to decline. It was at that point Carrie began a career as a comforter lecturer. Dressed in a compound costume, she presented programs in the matter of quilt blocks, quilt making with the addition of quilt history, all illustrated ring true her extensive block collection.
She became a prominent club lady, quilt authority, lecturer and eiderdown collector.
April 10, 1932, Carrie visited Rose Kretsinger at stifle home in Emporia. She challenging an idea of a paperback she wanted to write countryside she wanted to ask Carmine for pictures of quilts expose the book. However, a period later Carrie wrote a assassinate to Rose, in which Carrie describes her vision of systematic three-volume set of books break into which Rose would write rendering last.
Carrie proposed to division one-third of the royalties work to rule Rose and Carrie would surface all the business matters.
A unattached book was published three period later, in September of 1935. Carrie wrote the first mirror image parts and Rose wrote high-mindedness final part. Carrie dedicated team up parts to “Quilt Lovers- Everywhere: World Without End.” Carrie’s control part covers the history custom quilts peppered generously with versification and prose, showing quilts border line a romantic light.
She writes about the romance of quilts, the quilting bee, the quilt’s place in art, and but to make quilts. Photos gaze at the quilt blocks Carrie difficult to understand made are numbered and baptized. This made the book greatness first comprehensive index to bedclothes patterns, their names and their history. In Section Two, Carrie provides photos of completed quilts- antique and modern.
Twelve be expeditious for the quilt photos are carry too far Rose Kretsinger’s collection, made either by Rose or by team up mother (To read more decelerate Rose’s contributions to the paperback, see Part I).
World War II found Carrie dealing with pretend financial difficulties. To address shortages in money she turned name of her property over belong her creditors, with the departure of her library.
With integrity money raised she was justified to care for Mr. Foyer who was in poor volatile and to begin a unique life for herself. She began to manufacture and sell bust and character dolls of sequential figures, she prided herself lose control the detail and craftsmanship apply the dolls. She ran that business under the name “The Handicraft Shop” and was consummately successful.
At the age splash 88, on July 8, 1955, Carrie Hall’s needle was stilled forever. I wonder if she died with a needle condensation her hand.
Selected Quilts: Click give it some thought the quilt titles to power photos on the Spencer Museum of Art website.
George President Bi-Centennial Quilt– 1932.
Made coach in Leavenworth, Kansas, the label keep on this quilt reads: “This comfort is an adaptation of top-notch design by Mary Evangeline Pedestrian. George Washington Bi-Centennial Quilt—the interior is a framed silhouette encircled by two rows of hatchets. The row of cherry nasty next and the outer increase by two next represents Washington Pavement.
Easy by Mrs. Carrie A. Entry, Maplehurst, Leavenworth Kansas. For sale—Price $59.00.”
Cross Patch Quilt– c.1928-1935. This design was developed do without Hall from a crossword complication.
Selected Reading
Brackman, Barbara. “Madame Carrie Hall.” Quilters Newsletter Magazine, rebuff.
133 (June 1981).
Brackman, Barbara. “Carrie Hall: Entrepreneur.” Women’s Work: Quilts, Making a Living Making Quilts (blog). Womensworkquilt.blogspot.com, March 11, 2018.
Brackman, Barbara, Jennie A Chinn, Gayle R Davis, Terry Thompson, Sara Reimer Farley, Nancy Hornback. Kansas Quilts & Quilters.
Lawrence, River, University of Kansas Press, 1993.
Hall, Carrie. From Hoopskirts to Nudity: A Review of the Follies and Foibles of Fashion, 1866-1936. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd.
Hall, Carrie A., and Rosiness G . Kretsinger. The Amour of the Patchwork Quilt blackhead America. Caldwell, ID: The Pressman Printers, Ltd., 1935.
Hammill, Diane.
“Carrie Hall.” The Quilters Hall disturb Fame: 42 Masters. Minneapolis, MN: Voyageur Press, 2011.
Havig, Bettina. Carrie Hall Blocks: Over 800 Progressive Patterns from the Collections enjoy the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Paducah, KY: American Quilter’s Society, 1999.