Each Wednesday morning for the past 30 years, the women have been sitting in a circle, facing each other, sharing the silence. Their bodies are like statues, except for the tiny wavelike motions they ...

Photo by Janelle Patterson Barbara Robinson, 68, of Devola, shares the friendship star quilt she was given when she joined the Friendly Circle Quilt Club in 1993. MARIETTA — More than 100 years and ...

Marina Kovalyou and Laura Gadson understand why Harlem and Russian quilt makers could be unaware of each other’s existence for centuries and yet use the same stitching in their work. “The story is ...

SAN ANTONIO — Quilts of family, black leaders, and names of those no longer with us line the walls at Central Library and Our Lady of the Lake University. "Black women have been quilting forever," ...

I grew up surrounded by quilts. My grandmother has been quilting since the 1950s, and while my experience is far less than hers, it's a hobby I dove head-first into during the throes of the Covid ...

The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...