Patricia A. Turner is a folklorist on the faculty of UC Davis and the author of "Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters." The e-mail came with a puzzling message in the ...
PHILADELPHIA — Until I visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art last month, I’d never heard of Gee’s Bend quilts, which Black women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, started stitching in the 1800s. I’m hazy about ...
You've probably slept under an old quilt at some point in your life. A patchwork blanket that's been passed down through family members or styled at the beach house you frequented growing up. It's the ...
The designs echo traditional quilt designs - log cabin, star of Bethlehem, flying geese, bow tie, snowball - but with improvised variations.The quilts stray also from most traditional quilt ...