He repaired officers’ uniforms during his internment, and used the leftover scraps to make quilts. One on view, dated to 1806, features a double-headed eagle at its center, with his initials and ...

The pieces make up a quilt that could top a cozy bed ... interrupted by colorful squares and framed by bright clothing scraps. In the center, white letters spell out a poem: “i / i am ...

Two centuries later, a number of women in Oakland are recreating the Underground Railroad quilt. It’s one of the annual ...

Summer has come to Cletwr, the airy café halfway between Aberystwyth and Machynlleth and the last stop for refreshments in ...

(WRIC) — Quilts made by Virginia Commonwealth University ... Studies Department students throughout the semester using scraps of fabric, upcycled clothing and domestic materials.

She said there's evidence that enslaved people made utilitarian quilts from old clothing and scraps of fabric given to them by their enslavers. "Based on my research, and the research of highly ...

The nine 19th-century quilts on display are not your classic, staid bedspreads made of scraps. Rather, they are exuberant works of art, crafted with flair using the finest fabric available at the ...

Through each cut and stitch sewn, meaningless scraps of fabric are transformed ... so it would be perfect for a baby quilt," said Mary Barton. Quilts made by this ministry of women known as ...

“But you don’t need the whole T-shirt to make the quilt. “This has always been the thorn in our side, from the very beginning.” That’s because they just couldn’t throw the scraps awa ...

(Darrin Di Carlo/CBC) A local community group has sewn together a quilt made of cloth mask scraps, according to Chimczuk Museum — which is where the piece now hangs on display. Museum co ...