The center of the Crater Lake Centennial Quilt after treatment, above.
Not all quits brought to us are antique quilts. Sometimes they are special project from one of our institutions. Our repairs still are in keeping with the quilt’s year of birth and techniques, and in this case, the repairs were all hand-stitched.
The Crater Lake Centennial Quilt was such a project. It was made for the anniversary of the park by park employees and friends of Crater Lake National Park.
Each square depicted as aspect of the park, from critters and flowers in the park, to the fabulous views, to the schools for the park employees children.
It was traditionally quilted using fabric, and also made with photo-images on fabric and quite a lot of embroidery. Designs were both traditional and modern.
The Centennial Quilt visited many National Parks on a year-long tour. After touring, the quilt had several stains and a few tears.
MPF Conservation repaired the rips and separations in the squares, then cleaned the quilt before it went on permanent display at Crater Lake National Park. In this instance, the NPS did not pay for documentation, so minimal images were kept, other than before and after images; these are all images after treatment.
Below these are the individual images after cleaning and repair:
To return to Crater Lake National Park home page on MPFC’s website, click here.
If you do not know historian Douglas Brinkley, left, this is an excellent time to learn about him. We rarely plug authors, but Brinkley has entertained and informed us with so many excellent narratives on America!
Brinkley has written an excellent book on Theodore Roosevelt’s creation of the National Parks. We are lucky that Roosevelt set aside 230 million acres of wilderness between 1901 and 1909, and Crater Lake was part of that effort!
“The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America” (link for book is to Amazon), or listen to it on Audible with an excellent narrator.
Links to interviews on CSPAN below:
- Q&A: Douglas Brinkley on The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Part 1
- Q&A: Douglas Brinkley on The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America, Part 2
- And a link to the Crater Lake Institute, for the lecture and other informative local narratives on Crater Lake and its environment.
Image top left of Douglas Brinkley, February 13, 2020.
Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress, from Wikimedia
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