Quiltmaking among African-Americans has a richly textured history. In a new book called “Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook” (MacFarland & Co., 260 pages, $38.50), author Kyra E.

Quiltmaking among African-Americans has a richly textured history. In a new book called “Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook” (MacFarland & Co., 260 pages, $38.50), author Kyra E.

Several handmade quilts were spread atop white folding tables at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, each waiting to be examined. Two women wearing cotton gloves hovered over them, ...

Enslaved people traveling the Underground Railroad risked death if they spoke aloud about their plans to flee. Instead, the story goes, they communicated in code through quilts hung on clotheslines. A ...

PARKERSBURG — The Mid-Ohio Valley Heritage Quilt Show will hold a lecture by a nationally acclaimed quilter at 10 a.m. April 15 at the Blennerhassett Museum, 137 Juliana St. Mary Zesiger, a member of ...