The National Quilt Collection at the National Museum of American History reveals how a useful practice can represent artistic, cultural, and historic storytelling. A significant number of American ...

National Museum of American History 1850 - 1900 "Union" Appliqued Quilt National Museum of American History 1875 - 1885 Pieced and Appliqued "Basket" Quilt National Museum of American History 1860 - ...

Several handmade quilts were spread atop white folding tables at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, each waiting to be examined. Two women wearing cotton gloves hovered over them, ...

Exploring the Women of Color Quilters Network through SAAM’s collection Howard Kaplan Carolyn Mazloomi, The Family Embraces, 1997, machine reverse appliqued, hand-stitched, and quilted cotton ...

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...

In today’s day and age, the vast majority of our clothing, accessories, and home goods are manufactured overseas, and with huge tariffs being imposed on many countries, a lot of people have been ...