The National Quilt Collection at the National Museum of American History reveals how a useful practice can represent artistic, cultural, and historic storytelling. A significant number of American ...

National Museum of American History 1850 - 1900 "Union" Appliqued Quilt National Museum of American History 1875 - 1885 Pieced and Appliqued "Basket" Quilt National Museum of American History 1860 - ...

Piecework quilts have long been embedded, so to speak, in American life. Assembled from dozens, if not hundreds, of individual fabric pieces, their colorful geometries became popular in the decades ...

Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts Laura Baptiste Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that ...

Exploring the Women of Color Quilters Network through SAAM’s collection Howard Kaplan Carolyn Mazloomi, The Family Embraces, 1997, machine reverse appliqued, hand-stitched, and quilted cotton ...

efore about 1980, African-American quilts, particularly those from Alabama, were scarcely known outside the black community that created them. They were made for the quiltmaker’s personal use, and ...

quilts Turning my skeptical eye toward "American Quilts" at MAM Seven years ago Bobby Tanzilo approached "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" exhibition at Milwaukee Art Museum with a skeptical eye. But the ...

“Black American culture can be understood as an interwoven tapestry of dialects, foodways, spiritual systems, and community-based customs that have endured for hundreds of years. Like jazz, hip-hop, ...

Put some traditional American artwork on your desktop with quilts from the artists at Gee’s Bend. Women from Gee’s Bend, 2005 ONB Magic City Art Connection ...