But in the early 1970s, quilts made in Amish communities swelled in popularity among collectors, who drew visual parallels between these objects and the aesthetics of modernist abstraction; as a ...

It's not just quilts at the Art, Craft and Amish Quilt Sale in Jacksonport. Other handcrafted gift and home decor items will be on display and for sale, such as fabric pumpkins for the season ...

Explore the creative practice of Amish quilters in the United States. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women looks beyond quilting as a utilitarian practice. It reveals historical quilting ...

Quilting, Flam said, is for young and old, men and women. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British soldiers on bed ...

More than 100 quilts are expected to be on display and for sale in a variety of styles, colors and patterns, from baby to king-sized, all quilted by hand as in the Amish custom. The quilts will be ...

There's a story about Amish quilts that says a quilt can't be perfect because only the Lord makes perfection. Not true, said Wendell Zercher, a Lancasterhistory.org curator.

St Fagans is home to over 200 examples of Welsh quilting and patchwork which has a long history and, some say, inspired Amish quilting in Pennsylvania, USA.

Object Details Author Smucker, Janneken Umberger, Leslie Citation Smucker, Janneken and Umberger, Leslie. 2024. Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women [Exhibition catalog] Washington, DC: ...