An earlier blog post discussed a quilt made by Sophia (Weber) Haase that is housed in the Great Lakes Quilt Center at the Michigan State University.
The image of the quilt, like any image, can’t just be used in whatever fashion I want. I can use it in my personal collection and in my own private research. But the public use of images that I did not create needs to recognize the rights of the original creator of those images and, in this case, the repository holding the quilt that was photographed. It is not enough just to indicate where the original was located–if I’m going to “publish” a picture I did not take that is not in the public domain, I need permission. I emailed the Center and received permission to use the image in a blog post.
So, with permission, here’s an image of the quilt.
“Variation of Cats and Mice with Sawtooth Border,” made by Sophia (Weber) Haase, late 19th century, in the collection of the Michigan State Univeristy Museum; digital image, The Quilt Index, (http://www.quiltindex.org/fulldisplay.php?kid=1E-3D-558), obtained 11 February 2013. Image used with permission of the Great Lake Quilt Center
I’m not a quilter, nor am I an artist, so the “cats and mouse” is lost on me. I can see the sawtooth border though.
It’s a wonderful item to stumble across. And it makes the point that family items can easily be housed in unexpected places a distance from where the family or creator of the item actually lived. Sophia spent much of her life near Niota, Illinois–her daughter actually donated the quilt. And, as we’ve been stressing, it’s important to obtain permission from the creators of photographs and the holders of archival material before publishing them–even in a blog post. Copyright matters.
[this item was originally published on our blog when it was hosted on our blogspot.com site in February of 2013]
——————–
For those who stumble on to this page, Sophia (Weber) Haase was the wife of Herman Haase. He was a brother to Franciska (Bieger) Trautvetter (1851-1888) my great-great-grandmother.
Georgeann Engel says:
The large squares composed of two black and two white triangles are the cats. The smaller squares, also made up of two black and two white triangles, which are at the intersections of the rectangular pieces, are the mice.
Pamela Epple says:
One post refers to the quilt being at Michigan State University and the other names the location as University of Michigan. The Great Lakes Quilt Center is at Michigan State University, East Lansing. University of Michigan is in Ann Arbor, and those Universities would NOT be happy to be confused with each other! Just a little bit of rivalry there!
mjnrootdig says:
Thanks for catching that Pamela. I appreciate it. I’ve made the corrections to the post.