Everyone in the room wore white linen gloves lest the oils from their hands change history. In the world of centuries old hand made quilts small things make a big difference. Purple fades to brown ...

At last week’s Lancaster-Lebanon Quilt Show, Wayne Kern carried two family heirloom quilts past the art quilts, the quilted sneaker kits and the $10,000 sewing machines. One quilt was lightweight, ...

The quilter's fabric is soft, her stitches shine with golden thread and the setting for seeing her handiwork is the stillness of a church. Yet, viewers can't help but be jarred because, attached to ...

Dorothy Talavera of Delanco, N.J., can stand over any one of her dozens of quilts and tell you when it was made, who made it and the history behind its design. Just like in a photograph, Talavera says ...

Oregon has a rich quilt history. From my study for the book, "Quilts of the Oregon Trail," I searched for quilts and their makers made during 1840-1900. More about quilts Members of the . Tickets are ...

During the nearly 250 years of slavery in America, it’s believed that some cover was actually undercover. There were no written records of an underground railroad quilt code that aided runaway slaves ...

PRAIRIE GROVE -- A collaboration between history, art and a local quilting shop recently provided Prairie Grove Junior High students hands-on learning as they did a "deep dive into the quilt codes" ...

The design for a new Frederick Douglass memorial in New York has sparked a controversy that pits artistic truth and oral traditions against documented historical fact. The memorial incorporates quilt ...

A quilt that will be raffled off Wednesday in Springfield pays tribute to the area’s history, one stitch at a time. The quilt, embroidered by community members of the Springfield area, features animal ...