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Five Quilt Exhibitions You Can’t Miss This Spring
Quilt exhibitions offer a different way to travel through American history. A single gallery can bring together family memory, Indigenous design, industrial…
What Museum Conservators Look for in Antique Textiles
An antique quilt, embroidered cloth or handwoven coverlet can appear sturdy while carrying decades of hidden wear. Museum conservators examine far more than…
The History and Living Legacy of Gee’s Bend Quilting
On the Alabama River’s western bank lies Gee’s Bend, a rural African American community officially known as Boykin. Its quilts are recognised worldwide for…
Behind the Scenes: Preserving a 19th-Century Crazy Quilt
A crazy quilt can look wonderfully disorderly: velvet, silk, wool and cotton arranged in irregular pieces, then enlivened with embroidery, beads and decorative…
How Modern Quilters Are Reimagining Appalachian Patterns
Appalachian quilt patterns carry the visual memory of mountain communities across the eastern United States. Log cabins, courthouse steps, bear paws, stars and…
Scratch cards win big with a smarter online casino approach
Scratch cards have long attracted players with their simple format, bright symbols, and instant-reveal excitement. Digital versions bring that same…
Stitched stories: how quilts carried memory through the Civil War era
Textiles have long served as vessels for memory, holding stories that paper cannot always capture. Nowhere is this is more visible than in the quilts stitched…
Inside the Southeastern Quilt Museum’s New Acquisitions
The newest acquisitions at the Southeastern Quilt Museum reveal how quilts carry family memory, local craft knowledge and wider social history. This curator’s…

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