Quilting fabric symbols mirrors African and African American spirituality and history. African slaves combined quilt patterns and hand sewing as a path to freedom. No one is precisely sure when ...

“Such an extremely myopic view of African-American quilts made many scholars ... meaning could be derived from any number of random quilt patterns – “triangles in quilt design signified ...

Freeman’s research was collected and published in the book “A Communion of the Spirits” amid a growing interest in African American ... her quilts present classical patterns and techniques ...

Signature quilts, album quilts, Amish quilts and African-American quilts round out the show at the Museum ... It’s one of the most complex patterns and, in Bontraeger’s hands, one of the most exciting ...

Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County ... and am perfectly familiar with thirty patterns of quilts, but I had never seen an original design, and never a living creature ...

Harlem-based artist Algernon Miller designed a complex colored paving pattern that alludes to traditional African American quilt designs. Additional features, including wrought-iron symbolic and ...

The American Colonization ... to their African heritage. Quilts served as historical records for these individuals, narrating their journey from bondage to freedom. They communicated their stories, ...

It stands at the gateway to Harlem on Central Park's west side. The memorial includes a complex colored paving pattern that alludes to traditional African-American quilt designs, which was designed by ...

Shogaolu was also inspired by the African American tradition of quilting ... solved weaves in textures, motifs and patterns to create a quilt that the stories live within. In the interactive ...

The Gee’s Bend Freedom Quilting Bee, a collective of African American women founded in the ... specializing in different quilt patterns," Sheila Smith said. "This became a place where women ...