And for now, I want to share with you our region’s exciting African-American quilting traditions as I encountered them in the early 1980s, when I did the fieldwork that produced these photos.

A double wedding ring pattern graces every available fabric surface — chair cushion, curtains, rugs and the scalloped-edge quilt covering the bed. Alice Neal, ‘Mary Bright Commemorative Quilt (with ...

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, $38.5… ...

There are star quilts and log cabin designs, geometric patterns that look like Modern art, and even quilts depicting baseball diamonds and the story of Noah’s Ark. Quilts are a quintessential American ...

Quilts carried during the migration of millions of Black people from the South star at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific ...

Missouri Star Quilt Co. is a pattern for family success By DONALD BRADLEY. Updated July 16, 2013 3:25 PM. ... Israel, South Africa, Thunder Bay, Ontario, and so on around the globe.

Benberry, Cuesta. Always There: The African American Presence in American Quilts. The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.: Louisville, 1992. A selection of quilts and with chapters that include slave-made ...

In 2004, as part of its commitment to support and collect the work of regional self-taught artists, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts began a collection of African-American quilts with an acquisition ...

To many Americans, quilts are valued only for their practicality - they keep us warm. But in African American culture, quilts tell stories of sadness, love and violence. Students explored this ...