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Boro Cloth jacket
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Posted on April 26, 2012 via rosa ♥s with 17 notes
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crossword puzzle quilt
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Custer’s Last Waistband & the Cowboy Prince Present…
Childs Crazy Crib Scrap Quilt, Novemeber 2011
- crib crazy quilt sewn by hand enthusiastically in one day for the occasion of my friend Savannah’s son Silas’ third birthday party back in the fall
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The American flag interpreted in an African-American strip quilt.
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Sad Bones! SAD BONES! SAD BONES!
If You Love it, It Will Survive!
-I designed a “Sad Bones battle flag” for my friends show a few summers back. Eventually the design transformed itself into a tattoo on my buddies arm, and now is a symbol that I often include in paintings and nostalgia longings for summer kinda doodles
..but anyway this group comprised of my pals Danny & Emma and John, or whoever wants to play, is wild. They sing about ropeswing summers, backyard leaf forts, crushes and friend love that says “all my friends are holy.” And they sing about skinned knees and hopping fences and how if you love it, it will survive. In a certain way they project a sense of hope through their music, in light of sometimes restricting realities that begrudge us all. These kids are bodhisvattva rock’n rollers and they do it in a nice folky grunge slop-pop kinda way. Check’ em out!
They got written up in D.C.’s City Paper a while back and got a nice review.
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/41424/listen-to-sad-bones-backyard-dream-killer/
* all rock’n roll pictures by Amy Breesman
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“Schoolhouse Quilt”, Delaware, 1890
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The Promise True and Grand, a united chorus of the strange place, high fever, when can I change my clothes? blues
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‘Eye of God” Quilt, Circa 1920: Pennsylvania
diamonds within diamonds most resemble the Eye of God in this unusual quilt pattern. Greek key is a brilliant choice of border for this bold design. whats most surprising is that the entire quilt is made of 1 1/2” squares; there are no strips of fabric.
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Tumbling Blocks Charm Quilt, c. 1880
tumbling Blocks quilt in which no fabric is repeated. the use of each fabric only once makes it what is called a “charm quilt”. A number of the prints look the same, but close examination shows that they are not identical.
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Custer’s Last Waistband & the Cowboy Prince Present…
W.A.S.H.I.N.G….T.O.N Baby, DC! Shirt for my Childhood City(c. September 2010)-This cotton shirt features denim yolking that drips down the front of the shirt, cordory lined chest pockets, and applique designs of flowers, hearts and a quilted variation of the D.C. flag…this was actually, i think the third shirt I ever made. Its basically a result of what I call “Improvisational tailoring” where I made the pattern up as I sewed it, without actually drafting anything, or at the time actually really knowing how to sew. Therefore its a little funky in its construction and fit, as well as crude its is appliques, but its a nice reminder of where I’ve come from, both literally, vocationally and figuratively as it represents my childhood city of Washington, D.C.
I am a folk artist creating and living what I call “atmospheric, time travel art”, a folk art living history revival in which I put into the action the words of Thoreau when he beautifully proclaimed ….
““We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us even in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavour. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”
― Henry David Thoreau
I swear, Isnt that incredible? I shook when I first read it, and then smiled realizing exactly what living art would look like. For me I want my art to be something that isnt turned off or on; put simply just on a canvas or stitched into a shirt- No I want to live my art. When I walk down the street, or grocery shop, tailor, communicate with fellows, everything, all aspects of my life… From my 19th century everyday influenced dressing style, to my dirty wild hair, to my rustic Cracker Barrel aesthetic house, to my individual art projects and yet even more importantly from my everyday interactions with people, my choices, my handshakes, my sense of morality, and overall and most signficantly my intentionality.
Moreover I want to live well.
My faith as a Transcendentalist and artist has unfurled a whole new world before my eyes, in which I am invited and inspired and cant help but live outloud, engaged, wildly, boldly, intentionally and very colorfully.
Nicknamed the “Cowboy Prince” , my childhood was spent in coonskin caps and cowboy boots, getting into all sorts of adventures climbing trees and hiding in bushes, baking cookies, and making costumes out of my sisters clothing. I always wanted to live in a different time period, and dappled with a ten year addiction to Civil War reenacting, excessive book reading, tap dancing and yet still cannot shake my passion for all things past. I figured I might as well embrace it fully.
The greatest thing that happened to me as I got older was learning how to sew, and with that initial introduction to art, it later led to other gateway mediums such as painting, quilting and sculpture. I am now embarking on a most glorious journey in search of my own El Dorado. I am currently an apprentice costume designer, pattern maker, and tailor and am working hard to become a designer for films and eventually open my own tailor shop “Custer’s Last Waistband”.
This online periodical I have set up is an attempt at categorizing and most importantly sharing the nostalgic yearnings of my heart with a larger audience. These grainy images and artifacts are what truly turn me on. It is a way for me as an adult to maintain my sense of childhood wonder- which I feel is truly important for successful contentment- and furthermore cultivate it into the very atmosphere in which I dwell.
Well welcome y’all, set yourself down and rest a while- Lord knows! I got biscuits in the oven, while we remember and re-envision our world.
Welcome to the Cowboy Prince Castille
Ride Boldly Ride,
-Charlie C. Umhau
