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 ...

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 ...

If it has to do with quilting, there’s a good chance Judy Howard can tell you about it. Since 1976 Howard has owned and operated Buckboard Antiques and Quilts in Oklahoma City. Howard took a class ...

The quilter's fabric is soft, her stitches shine with golden thread and the setting for seeing her handiwork is the stillness of a church. Yet, viewers can't help but be jarred because, attached to ...

Avis Collins Robinson is a visual artist best known for her paintings and abstract quilts that explore America’s tensions over race, gender, oppression and history. Abstraction in visual art is built ...

A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes—triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons—and the clever ...

I love sewing and I am busy making a hand sewn patchwork quilt using hundreds of different Liberty designs. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Star, you can get unlimited access to the ...

"You can see in their quilts their history, their dreams."Ames is one of a dozen Colorado quilters chosen by the Denver Art Museum to help museumgoers better understand the show, on exhibit through ...