MT. ULLA — From its shape to the colors composing each element, every part of the Graham family’s newly installed barn quilt contains special significance. Curtis Graham Jr., the family historian, ...
EVERETT — When Anna Christina Robertson died Oct. 28 at the age of 100, nobody was surprised to find boxes of needlework stashed deep in her closet. A great-great grandmother, Robertson rarely watched ...
NEWARK — When Dorothy Smith visited the Newark Museum last summer for one of its "Jazz in the Garden" lunch-time concerts, she went with more than music in mind. A museum member since 1985, the ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This pieced-work example is one of three late-eighteenth-and-early nineteenth-century quilts that were donated in the ...
GREELEY, Colo.—It was buried there, in the bottom of a family trunk, for decades—maybe 80 years, experts are guessing now. It was a quilt, probably made before 1930, clean and bright and little-used.
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This indigo wool quilt is one of ...
A resourceful child without her own fabric stash, Edyta Sitar cut a piece of fabric from her mother's beloved drapes. When she presented her mother with the pillow she had stitched by hand out of the ...