{"id":178,"date":"2008-09-29T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-09-28T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T03:40:39","slug":"searching-for-science-quilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Searching for Science Quilts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/89-10656_225px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-186\" title=\"89-10656_225px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/89-10656_225px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar System Quilt, made in 1876 by Ella Harding Baker. Image from the <a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.si.edu\/collections\/object.cfm?key=35&amp;objkey=53\">National Museum of American History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/red-cone-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-187 alignleft\" title=\"red-cone-front\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/red-cone-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Genome quilt by <a href=\"http:\/\/genomequilts.com\/genome.php\">Beverly St. Clair.<\/a> The artist uses quilt blocks to encode sequences of DNA.<\/p>\n<p>Since I started working on this webzine, I&#8217;ve been looking for examples of the kind of art I want to showcase.  I sat down and brainstormed the kinds of cross-genre art I&#8217;m interested in.  One of the first things I thought of was science quilts, quilts made either to illustrate a point in science or using a scientific concept as inspiration.  After all, quilts are tesselations of the plane, divisions of space in a regular way, and so essentially a mathematical concept to begin with.  And another thing that I want to do in this magazine is find people who are out there doing interesting things outside of the mainstream.  So I thought that I&#8217;d go to some of the big craft sites and look for science quilts.<\/p>\n<p>Ebay: nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Etsy: nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Deviant Art: not really.<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking of SF art shows that I&#8217;ve been to&#8230; surely, there were some quilts there.  I know there are a lot of textile artists in the SF community.  Surely, some of those quilts did not feature unicorns or fairies.  I found a very small number of examples of what I was looking for&#8230; two of them are the lovely quilts pictured above. Then I thought that if I want to see them, perhaps I need to ask for them.  I would like quilters to send me pictures of any science related quilt along with a brief bio.  I&#8217;ll put the best ones together into a gallery with your info.  I will pick the one that interests me the most, and that person will win $100, and I will profile them on the site.  I don&#8217;t care about the size of the original quilt since I&#8217;m only interested in a picture.  The quilt doesn&#8217;t have to be made for this search.  I will take entries until the end of 2008.  Then, in January, I will post the results.<\/p>\n<p>Send photos or contact me with questions at dawnwich at yahoo.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar System Quilt, made in 1876 by Ella Harding Baker. Image from the National Museum of American History. A Genome quilt by Beverly St. Clair. The artist uses quilt blocks to encode sequences of DNA. Since I started working on this webzine, I&#8217;ve been looking for examples of the kind of art I want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.polutexni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}