Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “Heritage Quilt” shines a light on a Black and Creole community in southwest Louisiana Top 3 playlist Black people have ...
GOLDEN • Scotti McCarthy encourages you to take a closer look. Look at this quilt, among the dozens on display here at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Look at the shapes and colors. Look at the ...
A collaboration between history, art and a local quilting shop recently provided Prairie Grove Junior High students hands-on ...
History is kept alive in many ways—through historical novels, ballads, folklore passed down through the generations. For one group of Arlington seniors, local history of the now closed Lee Center is ...
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 ...
What started out as a sketch on a napkin one night at dinner has now been crafted to display Madison County’s Civil War history at the Pleasant View Home at Battlefield Park. About a year ago during a ...
The quilt is composed of groupings of three hexagons, with each grouping paying tribute to one of 30 figures from African-American history, she said. One hexagon bears the person’s name; another shows ...
Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil ...
The Framingham History Center is hosting a "Stitching Revolution" event on June 28-29, featuring quilting, lectures and 18th-century dance. Attendees can participate in community quilting and ...
Paducah’s National Quilt Museum honored American veterans and celebrated the country's 250th birthday at its Quilts of Valor ...
Black people have traditionally used quilts to tell their stories. Harriett Powers, for example, born into slavery in 1837, created the much-lauded “Bible Quilt” that hangs in the National Museum of ...