African american quilts
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How the utilitarian use of needle and thread helps Southern women stitch together causes and communities for the common good.
This photo essay of 15 African American quilters in north central Louisiana reveal traditional techniques and quilt types along with their aesthetics.
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Betty Ford-Smith fell in love with pinecone quilting and learned the heirloom hand quilting technique from an African American master quilter, Miss Sue.
Marion Coleman, Susan #3, 2006 Stitched fiber collage portrait, 63 x 53 inches by Donna Hussain A collection of quilts sewn by Afric...
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine…
