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Forever (For Old Lady Sally) is a 2006 print by Gee's Bend quilter Loretta Pettway Bennett.  A quilter, Bennett begins by creating a sampler quilt in the style of the quilts of Gee's Bend, which uses recycled household and thrift store clothing. Collaborating with Paulson Press (Berkley), an innovative etching technique is used to transfer the quilt to an etching plate.  The plate is coated with wax and treated with acid, which pulls the color from the sampler quilt and produces prints of great detail, rendering individual threads, seams, folds, and variation in color, and results in a softground spitbite aquatint etching on paper. Forever (For Old Lady Sally) depicts a colorful composition of blues, greens, red, pink, yellow, and brown colored squares and rectangles. Together, these blocks form a large rectangle that measures 35.75” x 50.75”, framed.
print quilts of Gee's Bend Gee's Bend quilter Loretta Pettway Bennett Paulson Press (Berkley) Paulson Press