Discussion at the Gadsden Public Library’s third Black History Month event on Thursday centered around the Underground Railroad and the use of unique quilt patterns as a means of communication between ...

A collaboration between history, art and a local quilting shop recently provided Prairie Grove Junior High students hands-on ...

ROCKFORD -- The history of quilting in African American culture is often overlooked. The powerful works of art tell the stories of slavery, freedom, and family. "Each block is unique within itself. If ...

SHELBY COUNTY, Alabama-- Columbiana's Agnes Pool spent the better part of a year gathering information about close to 30 quilts left by her aunt Lilian Natie Juzan for a book that documents their ...

The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...

At last week’s Lancaster-Lebanon Quilt Show, Wayne Kern carried two family heirloom quilts past the art quilts, the quilted sneaker kits and the $10,000 sewing machines. One quilt was lightweight, ...

Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International Museum at Balboa Park. The fabrics, the patterns, the designs all reveal ...

PINE GROVE – She’s been an obsessive quilter for the past 20 years and recently shared her passion with members and guests of the Pinegrove Historical Society. Susan Paul, a retired home economics ...

Quilts have long been used to tell histories and share intimate worlds, but deciphering their symbols can require an insider’s knowledge. Maps, on the other hand, seek to make physical space or ...

The Sisters in Stitches Joined By The Cloth and other guilds imbue history, culture, and social justice into their art. In the hands of Lesyslie Rackard and her sewing sisters, quilts talk. Listen to ...

With a quilt exhibit at the History Museum on the Square that opened last week, Springfield began marking Missouri's bicentennial anniversary. Missouri joined the Union as a "slave state" on Aug. 10, ...

The quilts are a part of Person County's Quilt Trail, a project that began in 2015. Other WRAL Top Stories According to Visit Person County's website, the quilts aim to show the area's agriculture ...