ASHLAND -- Because paper then was so fragile, Elizabeth Roseberry Mitchell began a graveyard quilt top of the cemetery in Woodsfield, Monroe County, Ohio, where two of her sons were buried. It was the ...

Quilts memorializing lynching victims in municipalities throughout Alachua County are now on display at the Matheson History ...

GOLDEN • Scotti McCarthy encourages you to take a closer look. Look at this quilt, among the dozens on display here at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Look at the shapes and colors. Look at the ...

What started out as a sketch on a napkin one night at dinner has now been crafted to display Madison County’s Civil War history at the Pleasant View Home at Battlefield Park. About a year ago during a ...

GHENT, WV (WVNS) — Quilting has been part of life in West Virginia for generations, shaped by the mountains and the practical ...

History is kept alive in many ways—through historical novels, ballads, folklore passed down through the generations. For one group of Arlington seniors, local history of the now closed Lee Center is ...

Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International Museum at Balboa Park. The fabrics, the patterns, the designs all reveal ...

In the Spring of 2026, Thomasville Center for the Arts will launch “My Side of the Story” with multiple public art ...

Black people have traditionally used quilts to tell their stories. Harriett Powers, for example, born into slavery in 1837, created the much-lauded “Bible Quilt” that hangs in the National Museum of ...

Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil ...

While most wives give their husbands shirts and shaving lotion, Teddy's wife Barbara recently gave him generations of family history stitched into a patchwork quilt. With roots reaching back more than ...

The quilt is composed of groupings of three hexagons, with each grouping paying tribute to one of 30 figures from African-American history, she said. One hexagon bears the person’s name; another shows ...