Love Letters

Sending personal letters through the mail has become a dying art. Most communication now adays is done via text or email. My quilt represents the stacks and bundles of personal mail that once traveled via the postal service. “Letters” were first sent by the Egyptins more than 4,00 years ago and in the US, the postal service came into being in 1792. The postal service was integral to the development of the American Frontier by enabling families to mantain contact, newspapers could share events and politians would promote themselves.

Handwritten love letters were an essential method of courtship that found prominence during WW1. My quilt represents the stacks of the letters shared by loveres and often saved, bound by a ribbon.

Materials used – mainly cottons and a portion of a damask tablecloth. It is fused and machine quilted.

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