Australian Homespun

Selvedge DESIGNER EDGE

It was a pivotal moment when Bisa Butler combined portraiture and quilting to create her first eye-catching artwork, and she’s embraced quilted portraits with gusto ever since. Inspired by African American history, family dressmaking traditions and uplifting colours and patterns, Bisa’s art quilts bring forward stories from the past with vibrancy and texture.

Like many wonderful ideas, blending portraiture and quilting came about as a solution to a problem. “I was determined to

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