Final Month of Knot Sew Fast: Patchwork of Tompkins County - Closes 12/30

IT'S THE FINAL MONTH OF Knot Sew Fast: Patchwork of Tompkins County! 

Knot Sew Fast is  closing to the public on December 30th. Be sure to visit The History Center before these rare and unique textiles are returned to the archives.

Piecing together the story of quilts encourages us to consider shifts in technology, industry, transportation, and materials over generations of local life. As we unravel (figuratively) each quilt we consider the hands that did the work, and the stories they captured in every knot and stitch. In addition to historic quilts displayed from four of the nine townships of Tompkins, there are interactive patternmaking stations in the Exhibit Hall; an invitation for our modern audience to try their hand at replicating patterns from ancestral woven Haudenosaunee belts to modern-day art quilts.

Quilts are a unique measure to explore history as the practice of quilting was a skill developed and practiced equally by historic Ithacan city-dwellers, as well as our rural township communities of Trumansburg, Groton, Dryden, Lansing, Caroline, Newfield, and Danby. The merging of this functional skill, and the hundreds of hours and handwork displayed in each quilt shares narratives about community, history, home, and skilled labor.

Discover more at thehistorycenter.net/knot-sew-fast. Knot Sew Fast is open to the public (no admission charge) December 1st-30th W-Sat 10am-5pm. 

Join us for the public opening of  A Sporting Chance: On and Off the Field on February 2nd!