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Having embraced a slower pace of life upstate, Melissa Ventosa Martin is launching an online marketplace dedicated to finely crafted pieces imbued with the luxury of time.
The quilters of Gee s Bend, a remote Alabama community, are particularly well-known in the US for the colourful quilts that they ve been making for over a century, in a tradition passed down from generation to generation. Photo: AFP
These quilting masterpieces have previously been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, but they could soon be coming to your home interior.
The creations of the African-American women quilters of Gee s Bend, Alabama, are now available to buy online for the first time on the Etsy e-commerce platform.
You ve probably already seen these kinds of quilts in US movies and TV shows, without necessarily knowing much about what they are or why they come from. Quilts are essentially bedspreads often made from old dresses and work clothes, as well as feed sacks and fabric scraps.