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Posted by Janet on July 28, 2009, 4:03 pm
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> > Hi Guys,
> > =A0 =A0 One of the men -- Dr. Zachary Smith aka Doc -- from over at RCT=
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> > (the quilting newsgroup) needs a Latin translation for "crazy quilt". =
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> > told him to post his request here because I know we have several Italia=
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> > stitchers & designers who lurk but don't often post. =A0I wanted to let
> > you all know that he is legit -- not some spammer. =A0If he posts himse=
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> > then folks can more easily contact him directly with a translation if
> > that's what they prefer to do. =A0CiaoMeow >^;;^<
> > PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< =A0 (RCTQ Queen of Kitties)
> > Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
> > their whiskers!
> > Visit my Photo albums at =A0http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
> I have a friend who is a high school Latin teacher. =A0I've emailed her
> and will post when she replies.
> Janet
Sorry to reply to my own post. My friend doesn't know the translation
but she is attending a seminar this week with other high school Latin
teachers and will ask them. I'll let you know what they come up with.
Janet
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Posted by mirjam on July 29, 2009, 6:30 am
My expert Quilter Artist Mrs Linda Baron
wrote me this note , regarding the crazy quilt
Shalom Mirjam!
The origin of quilt is from the Latin culcita,which means "a padded
cushion."
Crazy has French origins,"ecraser" meaning to crush.In pottery
'crazed' means crackled,a surface cracking.In gardens we have crazy
paving,a kind of mosaic of assorted paving stones.
Ergo,a crazy quilt is a patchwork mosaic,where the joins are
emphasized as in a crackle-glazed pottery item.
Sorry to disappoint all those who connect quilting with some weird
mental state!
Linda.
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on July 29, 2009, 7:43 am
Hi Linda,
With all due respect... While the art of crazy quilts (which generally
have no "quilting") may go back centuries, or even millennia (as has
been suggested in one of the threads on this question) I have no idea
what they were called/known as away back in those good ol' days. My
gut feeling is that the term "crazy quilt" may have/probably
originated with the 19th century fad. I have no evidence to support
this, but please bear with me a sec...
I don't think it's likely that whoever did come up with the term was
thinking about or relating it to crazing. More likely they *were*
referring to something akin a mental state i.e. the haphazard way the
scraps and fragments of fabric are thrown together like somebody
barfed up a textile mill. They weren't scholars - they were
quilters! If not the mental state, then another synonym of "crazy".
As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." ;-)
Nice theory though! :-)
Doc
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> My expert Quilter Artist Mrs Linda Baron
> wrote me this note , regarding the crazy quilt
> Shalom Mirjam!
> The origin of quilt is from the Latin culcita,which means "a padded
> cushion."
> Crazy has French origins,"ecraser" meaning to crush.In pottery
> 'crazed' means crackled,a surface cracking.In gardens we have crazy
> paving,a kind of mosaic of assorted paving stones.
> Ergo,a crazy quilt is a patchwork mosaic,where the joins are
> emphasized as in a crackle-glazed pottery item.
> Sorry to disappoint all those who connect quilting with some weird
> mental state!
> Linda.
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Posted by on July 29, 2009, 7:51 am
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:43:41 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
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>I don't think it's likely that whoever did come up with the term was
>thinking about or relating it to crazing. More likely they *were*
>referring to something akin a mental state i.e. the haphazard way the
>scraps and fragments of fabric are thrown together like somebody
>barfed up a textile mill. They weren't scholars - they were
>quilters! If not the mental state, then another synonym of "crazy".
>As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." ;-)
>Nice theory though! :-)
>Doc
I always assumed that the term 'crazy' was applied because instead of
neatly ordered geometric shapes, they are haphazard and sort of break
all the 'normal' rules of quilting.
All same as Crazy Paving in relation to random blocks of stone laid in
a path formation.
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Posted by mirjam on July 29, 2009, 4:04 pm
wrote:
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> Hi Linda,
> With all due respect... While the art of crazy quilts (which generally
> have no "quilting") may go back centuries, or even millennia (as has
> been suggested in one of the threads on this question) I have no idea
> what they were called/known as away back in those good ol' days. =A0My
> gut feeling is that the term "crazy quilt" may have/probably
> originated with the 19th century fad. =A0I have no evidence to support
> this, but please bear with me a sec...
> I don't think it's likely that whoever did come up with the term was
> thinking about or relating it to crazing. =A0More likely they *were*
> referring to something akin a mental state i.e. the haphazard way the
> scraps and fragments of fabric are thrown together like somebody
> barfed up a textile mill. =A0They weren't scholars - they were
> quilters! =A0If not the mental state, then another synonym of "crazy".
> As Freud said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar." =A0;-)
> Nice theory though! =A0:-)
> Doc
> > My expert Quilter Artist Mrs Linda Baron
> > wrote me this note , regarding the crazy quilt
> > Shalom Mirjam!
> > The origin of quilt is from the Latin culcita,which means "a padded
> > cushion."
> > Crazy has French origins,"ecraser" meaning to crush.In pottery
> > 'crazed' means crackled,a surface cracking.In gardens we have crazy
> > paving,a kind of mosaic of assorted paving stones.
> > Ergo,a crazy quilt is a patchwork mosaic,where the joins are
> > emphasized as in a crackle-glazed pottery item.
> > Sorry to disappoint all those who connect quilting with some weird
> > mental state!
> > Linda.- Hide quoted text -
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Hallo Doc Smith i will forward this to Linda
mirjam
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