We can't find these anywhere! One of the Gee's Bend Quilts was replicated and sold at Anthropologie in 2005. Now, however, there are no liscensed replicas to be found. We were hoping to post replica sources for Bedroom Month.
Find out more about the quilters at Gees Bend at the Gees Bend Quilts link above or see our post on them here.
There are a couple liscensed replicators out there, but they're producing everything but quilts:
One is Classic Rug, here in NYC on East 60th Street. They offer hand-tufted and flat woven rugs and suggest they can replicate any Gee's Bend design of your liking. One of their flatweave rugs is pictured above. The other is Kathy Ireland, who offers a line of lower-priced rugs, lighting, and home accessories based on the designs of Gee's Bend. We'd love to locate liscensed replica quilts but have not found anything yet..
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These great quilts shouldn't be licensed to replicate the quilts themselves - it undermines and confuses the value of the gee's bend quiltmakers' original quilts.
If not a trip to Selma, Alabama, perhaps a visit to www.quiltsofgeesbend.com will help.
All the best in your search!
I'm will DK- there *shouldn't* be licensed Gee's Bend Quilts.
And I am sure there will be lots of unlicensed cheap knockoff soon enough, sigh.
And if you really want one, I am sure you can commission a quilter to make you a similar one.
The DeYoung Museum in SF had the Gee's Bend exhibit for the last few months. They had an enormous gift shop at the end of the exhibit with many things featuring the quilting == give them a call and see what they've got left in the store.
If the quilters of Gees Bend profit from the licensing, then God bless!
One of the most moving story to come out of this group of women was from the one who lost her husband, so she took his clothes and made a quilt so she could wrap it around her when she was lonely and missing him. Yesterday, I attended the funeral of a much loved family member. His daughter asked me to make a quilt for her mom out of his ugly tie collection and goofy golf pants. I hope it will bring a smile to his grieving widow.
why buy one when you can make your own? there are classes at city quilter and purl in nyc.
I suppose you could always check eBay for licensed versions of the quilts from Anthropologie. I have one and love it. (It was the blue one with the little red stitched tufts.) I never got to get the first one they did which was courdoroy fabric in a similar pattern as above...and I'm STILL kicking myself about it today. If I remember correctly, they ended up taking some of those quilts and upholstering them onto wingback chairs. I saw one of the courdoroy ones in a store once. The store associate said that's what had happened. It was very cool...but a little out of my price range.
Anyways...Anthro has some new quilts on their site now that aren't quite as cool, but they're by a woman named Denyse Schmidt (who apparently is quite a quilter). Check em out...
http://tinyurl.com/2u4qse
More on Denyse Schmidt quilts at her website http://www.dsquilts.com/
the beauty of the gee's bend quilts are their simplicity and color scheme; so they aren't complex to reproduce quilts in the same style.
it shouldn't be hard to find a quilter (on etsy?) to make gees bend style quilts; but beware- if they're made by hand they'll be expensive (the quilt I made for a friend's baby- only baby sized- took aLONG time and if i was to make a queen-sized quilt by hand, I'd probably charge at least $350 for it- mostly for my time; but then gees bend pieces tend to be bigger and less complex than the current quilting trends, so it might be a little less.
I have hand-made quilts for sale. Please send me information on how to advertise.
I came across this site as I was searching the internet to learn how to price my queen size Anthropologie Gee's Bend replica quilt. I decided on 100.00. It's rather nice--mostly red/blue with a few blocks of fun red toile. I love it, but the background and reverse are more the color of unbleached muslin. I prefer a true white.
I have never used the quilt. I get more use out of the great cotton tote it came in!
It anyone is interested, they can email me at nonviolent2001@yahoo.com.
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