Biblical figures usually make the leap from the printed page to paintings or stained glass, but a national touring show stitches 50 females from the good book into fabric. "Women of Biblical ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Harriet Powers, an African American farm woman of Clarke County, Georgia, made this quilt in about 1886. She exhibited ...

the border on either side, males on one side and females on the other, meeting two by two at the top. “This is the ark – what it was really like,” Carroll said as she leaned over her masterpiece for a ...

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.

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 ...

Frieda L. Hopping lived to see four generations of her descendants. And, as a midwife in the 1920s and ’30s, she helped bring the children of others into the world. “Back in those days, you didn’t go ...

The congregation sang a rousing rendition of "Amazing Grace" Sunday morning in Hempstead as about 25 students gathered around a colorful quilt they helped create to send to Emanuel African Methodist ...