The quilts of Harriet Powers, born into slavery, are being memorialized with “Forever” stamps as a ...

ALL the negroes on the plantation were deeply interested in the little visitor at the House. She had come, they were told, from that far-away land, the North, and had never before been on a Southern ...

Alyse Minter, a descendent of Harriet Powers, contemplates Powers' Pictorial Quilt on display in the MFA's exhibit "Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories." (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) Two large quilts ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Some quilt authorities have been outraged to learn that a quilt depicting scenes from the Bible, stitched by a former slave in 1886 and now part of the Smithsonian Institution’s ...

Eleanor Schneider and her sister in law Jill Space hold an almost-finished quilt that depicts scenes from the New Testament of the Bible that was started by their aunt. The detailed quilts will be ...

The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln opened this past week. It cost $12 million and is the world's largest quilt museum with over 2,300 quilts.