Quilts and rugs are essential decor elements that transform a house into a home, adding comfort, harmony and warmth.

Quilt Elegies” includes a prototype of Krimes’ fabric-based mural designed with people recently released from prison.

I’m a folklorist, not an historian. My kind typically uses the past to help understand the present, rather than treating the past as subject matter in its own right. So I find myself turning Black ...

Seated at a Singer sewing machine at her home in Chicago’s Beverly community, Dorothy C. Straughter worked with extreme focus and intensity. Under her command, the machine spontaneously spelled out ...

Hanaphabi and Saidambi Naik, two middle-aged women from the Kalaghatgi taluk in Karnataka’s Dharwad district, were restless at first to speak in front of a camera. A few whisper-filled moments later, ...

Mount Vernon native and celebrated quilting artist Renée Fleuranges-Valdes is bringing color and joy to art lovers' homes everywhere with her debut art book "Becoming the Light: A Journal of ...

African quilting is a vibrant tradition that celebrates cultural heritage through intricate designs and patterns. Using fabric scraps to create these quilts not only promotes sustainability but also ...

African Americans carried many things with them when fleeing the South’s oppression and poverty in the middle of the 20th Century – a movement of millions called the Second Great Migration. Among the ...

For Edith Edmunds, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing on Juneteenth. "It's what I love to do," she told NPR in a phone ...