Slave quilts, Missouri City resident Pam Tilley will say, served many purposes. Stitching the colorful patterns offered an enjoyable time for slaves to socialize at the end of the day. And what they ...

The Kutztown Folk Festival is in full swing, and the quilt barn is a popular place for people to cool off. The Kutztown Folk Festival is in full swing, and the quilt barn is a popular place for people ...

WEST CHESTER — Every picture tells a story…and every block in a quilt can also relay a tale. Thursday night’s Juneteenth inspired opening, at the Chester County Art Association, of “African American ...

The Underground Railroad was a clandestine system for slaves in America to find passage to freedom. There were trails to follow and people who could provide them with food and safe haven until they ...

From when she was born, Ethel Hayden remembers quilting being a big part of her life growing up. The Tarentum resident found herself sitting in front of a quilting frame with her fingers weaving the ...

Ann Bakke's class is replicating quilts having patterns from the Underground Railroad era. The quilt patterns were used to provide different signals to runaway slaves. "The art of quilt making is ...

Joe Mallard started to stitch "the Obama Tie Quilt" in 2008. The first quilt he ever stitched took five years to complete. It consists of thousands of tiny stitches and hand-tied knots. According to a ...

RACINE -- The Racine Heritage Museum, 701 Main St., announces the opening of "Ozella's Quilt Code: A Piece of the Underground Railroad," an exhibit explaining the underground railroad's utilization of ...

The objects on display in the New-York Historical Society's Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War exhibition tell the harrowing story of slavery in America through textiles. On ...

The slaves who made it and long used it have been gone for more than 140 years, yet the old quilt still survives. It is rather crudely made of varying sizes of old faded pieces of wool clothing, sewn ...