Delia Bennett

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About the maker

Delia was born and raised in Gee’s Bend, where she and her husband, Eddie, farmed land they worked for landlords. They raised eleven children, and three of her daughters grew up to be quiltmakers too. Later in life she stayed home, kept house and sold eggs from her chickens. Her quilts are known for bold, off-balance shapes, and you can still see them in her granddaughters’ quilts today. The quilt on our pieces is her Housetop: Fractured-Medallion Variation (c. 1955).

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About Gee’s Bend

Gee’s Bend Quilters Collective

Gee’s Bend is a small, mostly Black community in a bend of the Alabama River in Wilcox County, Alabama. For generations the women there have made quilts from whatever they had on hand, like work clothes and feed sacks, and passed the craft down from mothers to daughters and from neighbor to neighbor. Today those quilts hang in museums around the world, but the tradition belongs to the whole community. More than a hundred Gee’s Bend quiltmakers are on record, and the women we carry are only a few of them.

SHOP the quiltmakers we carryMary Lee Bendolph·Delia Bennett·Annie E. Pettway·Loretta Pettway·Magalene Wilson·Claudia Pettway Charley

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This room started with North Star, 2023 by Corinne Slade. We pulled the warm, layered tones from the painting, wrapped the walls in a soft olive and peach print, and layered in our first ER Studio velvet sofa, a Gee's Bend quilted ottoman and a lounge chair made to live anywhere.

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This room started with Sisters Back by Charly Palmer. We pulled the deep blues and warm browns right out of the painting, put a bold print on the walls, and filled it with soft, rounded pieces you'll want to sink into.

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