A quilted wall hanging made of sepia photographs taken in 1938 by my father, Albert B. Cleage Jr and his brothers.
Top row: Hugh Cleage, Barbara Cleage, Albert B. Cleage Jr., Henry Cleage, Gladys Cleage, Albert B. Cleage Jr
Middle row: Henry Cleage, Doris Graham (My mother), Hugh Cleage, Gladys Cleage, Barbara Cleage, Hugh Cleage, Louis Cleage playing the lute.
Bottom row: Louis Cleage, Gladys Cleage, Anna Cleage, Henry Cleage, Albert Cleage Jr. Anna Cleage and family friend Paul Payne.
These are all from a small photo album with contact sheet size photos. Every family member has their own page, as several friends do. Everybody except Anna, the youngest. Why? Did she dislike getting her photo taken? Did she take the page out? Did they ignore her because she was the youngest?
This quilt is 20in x 15 in. I am enjoying working small.
For other family photograph quilts see “Sixties Blues” and “Ancestral Babies”. For more Sepia Saturday offerings go here.
I have never seen a photo quilt before, what a novel idea.
That's a use I would never have thought of. Can anyone recognise the instrument being played by the man at the right of the second row from the bottom?
Wonderful creativity taking old images to a new level. There is so much information in those photographs : history as a wall-hanging.
That's really a fun and creative way to display your photos.
Quite wonderful on so many levels.
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That is a wonderful creation.
A fantastic quilt and a great idea!
Barbara
Thank you margel! I will come by and pick it up.
It looks like a lute. but why would my uncle louis be playing a lute and where would he get it?