Becky Wright couldn’t have known when she bought an old, mostly brown muslin quilt at an estate sale 34 years ago that it would become so much a part of ...

BERTRAND — The Civil War-era quilt top rested at the bottom of an antique, metal clothes hamper for 14 years before Rita Skiles discovered it. Old Civil War-era quilt leads to a trail of discoveries ...

JESSAMINE CO., Ky. (LEX 18) — The fabric of our country's history is in the spotlight this weekend during a quilt show in Jessamine County. Members of the Jessamine Piece Quilters created the ...

Barbara Brackman’s Civil War Sampler: 50 Quilt Blocks with Stories from History Barbara Brackman. C&T Publishing, $29.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-60705-566-2 ...

DECATUR – Sewn with love by women on the home front as the fabric of the nation was torn by Civil War, an 1860s “soldier quilt” made to comfort the men of the Union Army would be a rare and ...

BENNINGTON — The Civil War remains the nation’s bloodiest, with 1.1 million casualties, and nearly 620,000 lives claimed. Away from those 19th-century battlefields, however, a different kind of ...

Ellis Bennett will present a special program, “History of Civil War Quilts,” on Saturday, March 2, beginning at 2:00 pm, in the Meeting Room at George Memorial Library, 1001 Golfview in Richmond.

The Great Plains Art Museum in Lincoln is hosting a unique exhibition that gives visitors a lesson in American history. The touring exhibition, “Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the ...