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 ...

Underwood, who splits her time between Pensacola and Gettysburg, is a living historian who makes Civil War quilt replicas out of reproduction period fabrics and presents the history of the quilts ...

This is a full view of the cherry quilt Christina Myers created in 1860. According to family lore, the quilt along with the family silverware, was buried during the Civil War. Later family members ...

Shirley Kimmel, left, of Shiremanstown and instructor Roz Graeff, right, of New Cumberland pick out fabric to make a replica Civil War quilt.

A quilt dating back to the 1860s has been uncovered in a library in the small Texas town of Alto. The valuable Civil War artifact was first spotted four years ago but it has taken until now for ...

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 ...

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.

Civil War quilts is the focus of quilt guild's upcoming juried show in Parma.

All inspiration quilts were required to be identifiable as a ‘Civil War Quilt’ defined as a quilt made between the years 1850-1865. Read more about the Civil War Quilts study at ...

Cherry quilts, given then name because of the stemmed cherries appliqued in the design, became popular in the mid-1800s, when the newest fabric color -- “turkey red” -- first hit the market.