Evensong is an evolving collection of typographic hand quilts bearing sacred and secular messages of comfort: the stillness and hush of evening in a blanket of slumber, repose, solace and protection until the break of day.

A startling line from the Anglican Evensong service; the first in a collection of quilts bearing messages of comfort and protection through the night hours.

200 x 220cm

Hand quilted linen and cotton patchwork bound with striped Khadi cotton

SOLD

From a popular poem about evening by the Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in the colours of Victorian décor and painting.

200 x 200cm

Hand quilted linen, cotton and silk patchwork bound with silk.

POA

The benediction made famous by the voice of ‘Mama’ Cass Elliott in 1968, in California thrift shop colours against a field of denim and chambray.

210 x 210

Linen, cotton Khadi and wax print patchwork bound with Indian striped viscose

POA

Henry Purcell’s Evening Hymn of 1689, asks, “to the soft bed my body I dispose, but where shall my soul repose?”

250 x 225cm

Linen and cotton patchwork

POA

The visionary penultimate line of a treasured Victorian hymn.

250 x 200cm

Linen, cotton and silk patchwork

POA