Once upon a time the patchwork quilt was seen as a cheap way to keep warm and cut heating bills. These days, however it can be big business. A magazine is offering readers the chance to make their own ...

“Quilting with a Modern Slant” by Rachel May is full of quilting tips and tricks, as well as ideas on how to make a quilt that builds on the aesthetics of traditional and art quilts. Quilting with a ...

UC Berkeley Art Museum was recently gifted the world’s largest collection of this type of art, all of it created by black women. Much like certain perspectives have historically been shut out from the ...

Auburn — Award-winning garden and landscape designer Sheree Rasmussen of Castleton, Ontario, Canada, finds a lot of similarities between her garden designs and her textile art. “When one designs a ...

Loved for their beauty, appreciated for the industry behind their making, and cherished as links to the past, some 1,000 people passed in and out of a recent three-day quilt show in Abita Springs to ...

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HOT SPRINGS VILLAGE — There’s a common thread that binds together three women from Hot Springs Village: their love of making art quilts. Darlene Garstecki, Michelle Jones and Ruth Anne Yax have art ...

The collector Eli Leon left almost 3,000 quilts by African-American artists to Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as a bequest. By Peter Libbey Almost 3,000 quilts by African-American ...

"Paintings, people really don’t understand. They don’t really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house," said Faith Ringgold, an American artist, known for ...