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The West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History and West Virginia Archives and History are hosting "Piecing ...
For generations, the women of Gee’s Bend have stitched together scraps of fabric into something far more lasting than cloth ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On the eve of the Fourth of July, one Sevier County group awarded a Quilt of Valor to an Army veteran for ...
Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing Thursday on Juneteenth.
She created a six-week quilting basics class that she taught dozens of students over the years. She started publishing patterns and opened a pattern company with her daughter in 2006.
I grew up surrounded by quilts. My grandmother has been quilting since the 1950s, and while my experience is far less than hers, it's a hobby I dove head-first into during the throes of the Covid ...
The dense patterns in his backgrounds are built out of hundreds of short, tight marks, sometimes with the goal of making a shimmering effect like light on water or 1960s Op Art.
When I thought I had made a quilt I would throw, I asked everyone what they thought. They told me it was beautiful but to me it was the ugliest quilt I had ever seen,” Emma Mooney Pettway laughed.
Using zero-waste blouse patterns and plant-based dyes, she cuts and hand dyes strips of fabric before reassembling them into quilt-like banners.
The Zuni Olla Maidens, traditional dancers and singers from Zuni Pueblo and quilter Susan Hudson (Navajo/Diné), who lives in Sheep Springs, New Mexico, were recognized with the prestigious honor ...
A Navajo woman who has spent 50 years sewing has now been honored with an NEA award for her unique quilts. She is unafraid to criticize the mainstream culture that's marginalized Indigenous artists.