Detail from a circa 1865 quilt, made by an Illinois woman from uniforms worn by her sons on opposite sides in the Civil War, in an American Textile History Museum display.

Responding to the 2014 theme of the American Civil War, quilt makers created quilts copied from, or inspired by, existing Civil War quilts. All inspiration quilts were required to be identifiable as a ...

A significant number of American quilts can be found in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery, the Anacostia ...

Theatre of the American South is an annual festival in Wilson that celebrates Southern culture. Among the attractions is a collection of Civil War-era quilts. Tar Heel Traveler visits a quilt shop ...

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 Quilt tells story of life during the ...

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.

LITCHFIELD - Using quilts as aids, handouts, and the main event, quilter, crafter and teacher Jo Hansling talked about the use of quilts during the Civil War. Addressing an audience of 35 at the ...

Piecework quilts have long been embedded, so to speak, in American life. Assembled from dozens, if not hundreds, of individual fabric pieces, their colorful geometries became popular in the ...

Quilts, a truly American art form, will be the focus of the Crazy Quilters' Quilt Guild of Mukwonago when it hosts its 28th annual show on Saturday and Sunday, April ...

Becky Wright appears in full period costume to deliver her presentation about quilts and the textile industry during the American Civil War. She will be at the German American Heritage Center in ...