quilts

 TANGERINE TANGO, TERRACOTTA ROSE ARE AT FISHER HERITAGE NOW. The two beautiful shades declared the colors of 2012 – Tangerine Tango and Terracotta Rose – have been incorporated by quilt makers, rug hookers and coverlet weavers into their handwork since the late 1800s. They can accent your home or office right this minute through a call or visit to NYC gallery FISHER HERITAGE, where antiques dealer Laura Fisher has pulled together a varied group of vibrant textiles that ...

Some incredible quilts pieced with thousands of hexagons from the inventory of Laura Fisher’s FISHER HERITAGE in NYC have been chosen for the exhibition: 'Hexagon, Eternal Piece' at the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival on view through January 28, 2012. The exhibit displays antique American quilts and also new quilts by Japanese artists that incorporate the hexagon shape. Fisher has provided classic masterworks like a complex Grandmother’s Flower Garden Six Point Star variation, ...

  “Visual impact, design, sculptural quality, and fabrics are characteristics of antique quilts that guide collecting today,” according to NYC Americana dealer Laura Fisher. Design-astute individuals view quilts as art, not simply craft. They especially seek examples of innovative design and compositional vitality that resemble modern art but are pieced together of fabric, not painted on canvas. Quilts’ historical context is a bonus but not the sole reason to collect anymore, because ...

  To herald the advent of a new and hopefully peaceful year, treat your senses to a luxurious antique silk or velvet quilt from the special collection at Laura Fisher’s FISHER HERITAGE, 305 East 61st Street, 5th Floor in the Hayes Fine Arts Building. “A jewel tone, intricately pieced antique quilt offers a tactile and visual experience as well as an historic context,” Fisher reports. Thanks to the increasing wealth and urbanity of a growing American middle class in the late 19th ...

  When you think of a home decorated for the holiday season, an antique quilt is often central to the room setting. Displaying such an heirloom – whether from one’s family or  a store-bought antique – is a simple decorative gesture, yet it speaks volumes. It expresses a sense of continuity, of home, family, and tradition, its hand-made beauty a memorable visual accent. FISHER HERITAGE, acclaimed for its one of a kind, out of the ordinary selections especially in antique quilts ...

  Before there was computer technology to figure out iterations of pattern, 19th century quilt makers fiddled with narrow strips of light and dark toned fabrics to create intriguing optical illusions of a design known by the umbrella term LOG CABIN QUILT.  A favorite graphic of NYC Americana dealer Laura Fisher, a collection of them is presented throughout the winter season at her gallery FISHER HERITAGE, 305 East 61st Street. Hours are usually Monday through Friday from 11 to ...

If the fervor over the zigzag pattern in the sold-out Missoni for Target collection has made you eager to add visual excitement to your décor, consider the zigzag in antique quilts and hooked rugs at NYC’s FISHER HERITAGE. Owner Laura Fisher so enjoys the dynamic pattern that it is always found in her vast range of pieced quilts dating from the early 19th to the mid 20th century, and in geometric hooked rugs. Whether the quilts contain just two colors or a multitude of printed cottons, the ...

Saying “The American flag is and has always been a powerful symbol of the resilient and indestructible American spirit and of the values that unite us as a people,” U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer this week urged people across the United States to prominently display an American flag, as “a fitting tribute to those we lost on 9/11” that “will make good on our promise to never forget …and will send a powerful message of ongoing national unity and resolve…From Betsy Ross to Iwo Jima to Neil ...

June brides and grooms, or grooms and grooms, or brides and brides will cherish an antique textile emphasizing the color blue that NYC Americana dealer Laura Fisher has collected in anticipation of the wedding season.  At her midtown NYC gallery FISHER HERITAGE, this perennial favorite color ranges in hue from the deepest indigo to the gentlest weathered denim-y blue. It appears in antique American quilts, in hand woven American wool coverlets and blankets, and also in select Japanese and ...

  Looking for that special gift for the soon-to-be-wed British couple? How about a superlative, sailor-made masterpiece made of wool uniforms that depicts the seasons and the countries of the British Commonwealth to which he traveled? Or perhaps give them  the classic American quilt - the Double Wedding Ring – either a bold example in multicolor solids on black wool, or a traditional one of 1930s pastel printed cotton that typifies this design? NYC antiques dealer Laura Fisher has many ...

Fired up by the forthcoming exhibition from the American Folk Art Museum of  one collector’s red and white quilts called INFINITE VARIETY,  in further celebration of the color red and quilt art, NYC American antiques dealer Laura Fisher is offering a diverse collection of red and white quilts at her gallery throughout the Spring. At the 67th Street (Park Avenue) Armory from March 25 -31 will be 650 (yup, amazing!) quilts in solid red and white literally hanging from the rafters like ...

The American Folk Art Museum will welcome the New Year with warmth and comfort as it spotlights a time-honored art form―American quilting.  The American quilt is but one element of the museum’s extraordinary collection devoted to folk art dating from the 18th century to the present. To celebrate the museum’s commitment to the appreciation of traditional folk art and the creative expressions of contemporary self-taught artists, NYC & Company, the City’s official marketing and tourism ...

To herald the advent of the new (and hopefully peaceful) year, treat your senses to a luxurious antique velvet or silk quilt from Laura Fisher at the FISHER HERITAGE gallery, 305 East 61st Street, 5th Floor (Hayes Fine Arts Building) through the end of February. “A jewel tone, intricately pieced velvet or silk quilt from America’s past offers both a visual and tactile experience as well as an historic connection,” Fisher recommends. The luxury materials that became decorative, not ...

New York City antiques dealer Laura Fisher will present visually distinctive antique quilts pieced from menswear suiting in an autumn exhibition and sale “MALE ENHANCEMENTS:  Suit-able Quilts." The collection pays homage to the design inventiveness of quilters who turned woolen menswear fabrics into powerful American textile folk art. They will be available at FISHER HERITAGE, 305 East 61st St, 5th Floor (the Hayes Warehouse), October 11 - December 31, 2010; Monday-Friday, 11:00 am - 4:00 pm. ...

  Hill-Stead Museum is pleased to announce that its special exhibition of Gee’s Bend and other historic and contemporary quilts, the museum’s first loan exhibition, has been extended a full month, through March 28. The exhibition is a component of Hartford’s Community Health Services’ Community Threads project, a city-wide celebration of arts, community, and the history and culture of quilting.   Throughout the 20th century, women in the small rural village of Gee’s Bend, ...