A little over a year ago, Maine College of Art & Design student Olivia Van Oot had the idea to translate the pieced quilts she’d been making with friends into wood. Today, her wood-veneer works ...

Each square of the Diamond Sampler quilt has a pattern that could be its own full-size quilt. As a sampler, the quilt is filled with dozens of miniature patterns. No block is alike. “Some of them have ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Seeing floral patterns on quilts is not uncommon. But the quilt garden at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville turns the tables. The garden is designed to mimic the shapes and ...

The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum’s biennial exhibit of quilts made by men is one of the museum’s most popular events, even though its original novelty — the rarity of male quilters — may have worn off.

Betsey Telford-Goodwin didn’t know much about quilts when an acquaintance in Massachusetts asked her to hunt around for some antique textiles from the American West to decorate her house. It was 1987, ...

Spend enough time driving and you’ll start to question the roadside fixtures you take for granted. After figuring out the purpose behind the brightly colored balls on power lines and the metal stars ...

Enslaved people traveling the Underground Railroad risked death if they spoke aloud about their plans to flee. Instead, the story goes, they communicated in code through quilts hung on clotheslines. A ...

There's a story about Amish quilts that says a quilt can't be perfect because only the Lord makes perfection. Not true, said Wendell Zercher, a Lancasterhistory.org curator. "Their response is, 'no ...