Quilt from Patchwork Lives, larger image here.
Travelling west in American in the nineteenth century, you may never have seen again those you left behind in the east.
Quilt from Patchwork Lives, larger image here.
Signature quilts and album quilts were tangible mementoes, often collaborative works.
Quilt from the IQSC, larger image here.
The Patchwork Lives exhibit not only contains an enticing assortment of historic quilts, it also shows how they document social change over a seventy year period.
Quilt from the IQSC, larger image here.
If you’re interested in historic quilts, the International Quilt Study Center has a free quilt-of-the-month email drawing on its extensive collection. Sign up here, or view the archives here.
More on signature quilts here and here.
