Meticulously placed green corduroy strips are the distinguishing feature of Nettie Jane Kennedy’s quilt from 1973. Conceived as a whole system, Kennedy’s strips lend a unified visual impression embodied in her name for the pattern: “Basket Weave." However, the uniformity is broken up by eccentric green elements: a long row of green strips along the one edge and the placement of two odd green strips in the row on the composition’s opposite side. This quilt offers another example of the Gee’s Benders’ control of edges and boundaries, so crucial to the success of geometric and, especially, minimalist forms.
