Everyone in the room wore white linen gloves lest the oils from their hands change history. In the world of centuries old hand made quilts small things make a big difference. Purple fades to brown ...

The designs echo traditional quilt designs - log cabin, star of Bethlehem, flying geese, bow tie, snowball - but with improvised variations.The quilts stray also from most traditional quilt ...

Patricia A. Turner is a folklorist on the faculty of UC Davis and the author of "Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters." The e-mail came with a puzzling message in the ...

Dyslexic and called a “dim-wit” as a child, Judy Howard has always been painfully shy. When she opened a shop to buy and sell antique quilts in Oklahoma City more than 30 years ago, she never dreamed ...

There's a lot more than meets the eye in the Historical Society of Frederick County's latest exhibit, Common Threads. At first glance, there are quilts, coverlets and samplers. But upon closer ...

PHILADELPHIA — Until I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art last month, I’d never heard of Gee’s Bend quilts, which Black women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, started stitching in the 1800s. I’m hazy about ...

A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes—triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons—and the clever ...