quilts

A young girl has an amazing dream about the sights and sounds of India after her aunt Anna returns from a trip there, bringing her a special quilt.

When Peter is sick in bed, his imagination prompts him to imagine all kinds of adventures as he looks a the patterns of the patchwork quilt.

Provides information about the history of quiltmaking in America from the late-eighteenth-century up to the beginning of the twenty-first-century. Describes the cultural significance and evolution of quilts into an art form. Includes color photographs and an index.

Examines the experiences of nine Civil War women including abolitionist Lucy Stone and freed slave Susie King Taylor and offers nine projects for period quilts and creative activities related to each woman's story.

In 1918 Illinois, Ida Lou dreams of finding her estranged father by becoming an aerialist in the circus, but her plans may be sidetracked by a terrible accident.

Gives simple, step-by-step directions for creating original quilt designs and for making the patterns.

The exhibition focuses on the quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph, and includes quilts by her mother Aolar Mosely, daughter Essie Bendolph Pettway, and daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph, found-object sculpture and assemblage by Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley, and intaglio prints by Mary Lee and Louisiana Bendolph.