More than 2,000 quilts will go on display tonight as the International Quilt Festival returns to Houston. But one in particular will be hard to miss. The Quilt of Belonging is dramatic in size, ...

Irene Gammel receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Joanna Dermenjian does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Fact, fiction, folklore, or a bit of all three: Did runaway slaves seek clues in the patterns of handmade quilts, strategically placed by members of the Underground Railroad? This ongoing debate ...

Ruth McKendry is a well-known textile expert and author of Quilts and Other Bedcoverings. Her personal collection of more than 300 quilts was acquired by the National Museum of Civilization in the ...