Most of them are in shades of blue, with a smattering of bright orange scraps and a few ... The style of brightly colored, improvised quilts associated with Black communities in the American ...

Instead of a standard red square at its center, however, this block has a black ... this quilt is very, very special to me," Buckley says. The blanket features patches of bright red, orange ...

It sits against a lopsided geometric pattern, a riot of red and black and orange. The design is based on the quilts of Gee’s Bend, and it was made by his mother. Michael C. Thorpe's exhibition ...

Yet, viewers can't help but be jarred because, attached to the top of this 10- by 10-foot piece of black cloth ... place Sunday amid nearly 60 other quilts, most sewn in bright cheery colors ...

True to reality, Schlatter put a total of 19 orange cones on the quilt. Schlatter says she, along with her fellow quilters, wanted to catch up with the times and in the 1990s, they decided to ...

The idea for the pattern came when Linda Graffeo, another coordinator with the Port Orange group, saw a star-within-a-star quilt block design created by Pat Sloan — a Virginia-based quilt ...

That is especially seen throughout Black history, during which the art ... a founder of the Mount Vernon Senior Quilting group, quilts were hung in windows during the times of African slavery ...

Meant for the wall rather than the bed, the quilts tell of the joys and rigors of Black lives — and of Black women’s lives in particular — while simultaneously celebrating the human capacity ...