May 11, 2008; Mathematical Quilts
 

Happy Mother's Day, mothers.

Elaine Krajenke Ellison is a mother. She is also a retired high school math teacher in Indiana, and a quilter. She makes mathematical quilts, many of which are in private collections, but some can be seen publicly at places like the London Science Museum. Here's a small sample....

http://cellar.org/2008/math1.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/math2.jpg
http://cellar.org/2008/math3.jpg

She also sells note cards with pictures of the quilts and an explanation of their derivation. I bought a set for my retired school teacher Aunt. They're a surprise birthday present, so don't tell anyone.:headshake

She won't get it outta me, Bruce.

I keep reading Clifford Torus...as Clitoris....think he got much shit at school?

No, because they didn't have clitorises back then
But I bet no-one would read his resume...

They're lovely Bruce
I don't understand a word of it, but they're very pretty!

quilt erat demonstrandum

Beautiful! I wonder if she'll expand her repertoire to include fractals.

She did. The Koch curve and the Sierpinski triangle/square that she has done are fractals.

I have nothing but respect for filthy minds, but the Clifford Torus is the shape pictured, not the name of anyone involved. Not sure how it got the name, actually...

http://www.msri.org/about/sgp/jim/ge...ions/main.html

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pretty cool, tho' pretty much all quilts are inherently mathematical anyway--you have to piece together geometric shapes, after all.

Oh...hahahaha...I just read Clifford Torus and didnt bother with the rest :blush:

unless you do applique or crazy quilts, which can be free-form. Pieced quilts, though . . .

Not very often, they take an infinite amount of material to make.

The clifford Torus is very nice!

I am a math and a seamstress flunkie among other things but I do appreciate the visual.

Belated Happy Mother's Day!skysidhe, my mom had one for a long time, but it seemed like she was always taking it back to the dealer for service. A couple years ago she traded it in for a used Escort.