Artists Activate Traditions” at the Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) made me reconsider what folk art really is. I’m used to curators making the case for why traditional artisans or “folk” ...

Buttons count toward points, and the player with the most points wins; it’s a balance between button wealth and quilt beauty, ...

My first memory of her sewing was when I was about 8 years old. She would be sitting at her brown Singer Sewing Machine for ...

“Quilting is mostly singing,” according to Nettie Young of Gee’s Bend, Alabama. Like singing, quilting is often a communal activity. Quilters gather to cut, piece, and stitch layers of fabric together ...

My situation in life: the story of Mary Remington -- The hurry of work: the role of quilts in women's lives -- The bedspread gets along finely: making quilts in Early America -- Fabrics of the simple, ...

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