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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...