Wow.

Who knew?

The Amish faith embodies the principles of simplicity, humility, discipline, and community, but their quilts are anything but humble - they're a riot of geometric pattern and colour.

An exhibition currently running at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, features nearly fifty of these beauties, ranging from full-size bedspreads to quilts for chldren's cots.

Complex, bold, and even a little trippy at times, the quilts in the exhibition originate from communities throughout Pennsylvania and the Midwest and date from the 1880s to the 1940s, the height of Amish quilt production.

Exhibition curator Jill D’Alessandro explains, “Although Amish women first learned quiltmaking from their ‘English’ (non-Amish) neighbours, they quickly developed a unique sensibility of their own, coupling distinctive choices of quilt patterns and fabrics with unusual spatial arrangements.”

The show is on until June the 6th; a must see if you can make it, as we think they'll be even more stunning in the flesh.

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