privately held gathering of quilts and textiles managed by the authors. The sisters chose to focus on indigo because, they claim, blue is the most popular color, and indigo is “the king of that ...

Thompson often uses indigo in her ancestor quilts, forging a link between the ancestors she knows and the ones she doesn't. "It's an opportunity," Thompson says of her artwork. "To be connected to ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — I recently visited Virginia Beach to check out a piece of award-winning local history at the Thoroughgood House: a centuries-old quilt. "The quilt itself has this beautiful ...

Before the stitching began, each participant was given a list of plant, fish and animal species along with several pieces of recycled calico dyed with indigo to represent water. In her quilt ...

In the 1950s and 60s, jiaxie quilts were still an essential part of nuptial celebrations in Wenzhou, in east China's Zhejiang Province. Wenzhou jiaxie was done in plain indigo and white.

Their book Indigo Quilts received the Lucy Hilty Research Grant and the Meredith Scholar Award. The NMB said: “Through meticulous research of colonial records, letters, wills and shipping ...

Quilting bears fruit in many forms, but attendees at the annual Indigo Quilt Exhibition this week will be particularly impressed to see a handmade coat.