IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Found in Londonderry, Vermont, in a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The 17-inch center block of this ...

What do you think of when you see a quilt? A practical object? A work of art? A treasured family heirloom? Quilts, more so than many objects, have managed to bring all of these identities together.

When Jane Stickle sewed the final stitches into her quilt, she must have been well pleased with her handiwork. She had good reason to be. She had just completed what is still hailed, a century and a ...

The marvel of quilting is the creation of myriad patterns using the humblest of materials: fabric, thread and batting. The result can be a utilitarian bed covering or an astonishing work of art.

BILLINGS – John Flynn’s quilting started with a few innocent stitches. Flynn, who grew up in Billings, was a civil engineer working with his father building bridges and other concrete structures ...

Unidentified Maker from the Lapp family, Smoketown, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, “Lone Star / Star of Bethlehem” (c. 1935–45), cotton and wool, 81 x 82 inches (205.74 x 208.28 cm) (all photos Julie ...