History
Quilts have always been more than layers of fabric stitched together. They carry the history of the people who made them, the materials available to them, the communities they lived in, and the traditions they passed along.
This collection explores the stories behind familiar quilt blocks, regional techniques, historic textiles, remarkable quilts, and the makers whose work might otherwise be forgotten. Some histories are carefully documented; others have become tangled with family stories, popular folklore, and a few myths repeated so often that they began to sound like fact. Here, we look more closely at all of it—not to take the romance out of quilting, but to better understand the very human story stitched into it.
Choose a topic below and follow whatever thread catches your curiosity.