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

Bright colors, unexpected combinations of fabrics and asymmetrical patterns are attracting new attention to African-American ... catching feature of a lone-star quilt made around 1970 by Indiana ...

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

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

The guest book to Missouri Star Quilt Co. shows sign-ins from virtually every state, plus France, Israel, South Africa ... She was looking for the perfect pattern to make a quilt for her mother ...

Two historians say African American slaves may have used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named "wagon wheel," "tumbling blocks," and "bear's paw" appear to ...

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic was beginning, a group of African ... quilt. Group co-founder Renee Wormack-Keels of Reynoldsburg honors significant Black women of Ohio in her “The Ohio Star ...

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 ...

Known for their innovative quilting tradition since the 19th century, the quilters, bold patterns ... has been featured in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the ...