In Morning Star Quilts, Pulford’s 1989 survey of quilting traditions among Native American women of the Northern Plains, she tells of a letter she got from Jackson that described a single month ...

Each of the 30 pinecone patches in the Lowrie quilt has more than 2,000 pieces of material, totaling over 30,000 folds, according to UNC-Pembroke. However, you need an outfit to dance in a powwow ...

It has turned up on Neolithic rock carvings, in Hindu temples and amid Greek ruins, and was once widely incorporated in Native American jewelry and handicrafts — so much so that Arizona in the ...

The idea of a quilt as a metaphor to explain a diverse concept is a hackneyed choice. It is used in this case to appeal to people of all lands. There are 196 countries in the world. If each is a ...

Panel submissions for The Great American Birthday Quilt will be accepted from now until Nov. 30, with final assembly taking ...

One of the most beautiful aspects of Native American culture is on display starting Sunday at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum. “To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions” is an ...

In short order, he bought a pair of Mennonite quilts, a Native American quilt and a Victorian-style crazy quilt. “And I had not the foggiest idea of what I was doing,” he recalled recently in ...

Jerry Blackburn’s “American Heat” quilts are bright and beautiful-but they won’t keep you warm. They’re made of metal. Blackburn, a Chicago sculptor, uses pieces of aluminum cans and ...

An Indian American physician has created a unique quilt depicting the US national flag which has the signatures of governors of all 50 American states and former President George W Bush, making it ...