The work of the African American quilters Laverne Brackens and Sherry Byrd, who continue the thread of the family tradition, ...

Two historians say African American slaves may have used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named ... six years ago in their book Hidden in Plain View ...

About a decade ago, imaginations were captured by a tale of African-Americans weaving secret codes into quilt patterns in the 1800s ... for a children's fiction book, many people began to believe ...

The most significant doubts stem from the fact that most patterns that ... in her book, "Always There: The African-American Presence in American Quilts." “Quilt historians realized findings ...

A country that once had slavery as a legal institution now had an African ... YouTube or in a book how to make colors, patterns and textures work together.” In addition to quilting, Taylor ...

Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...

Routed West” expands on a previous display of Black diaspora works from the 1940-to-1970 Second Migration period.

Quilts are one such medium ... by a central interest in representing the African diaspora and how it adapted to a new environment through color, pattern, and texture. Arbie Williams: Medallion ...

The African American Quilt Guild of Gaston County ... organization gets lots of fabric donations and teaches one another how to quilt different blocks. “There’s so many patterns out there,” said ...

an African American quilter and the owner of Country Barn Quilt Company in Augusta, Ga., is a huge fan. "I think it's a great read. I kinda read it in one night," she said. For the book Tobin ...