quiltmakers

Presents the text of Alice Walker's story "Everyday Use"; contains background essays that provide insight into the story; and features a selection of critical response. Includes a chronology and an interview with the author.

Recounts the experiences of women settling in the mining and farming communities of the Colorado Territory, focusing on how the women used quilts to record the experiences of their journey.

A collection of writings which pay tribute to quilts and quilting memories from different eras and authors.

The quiltmaker grows up wealthy and sheltered, but radically changes her life after she discovers the poverty and need outside her town.

When a generous quiltmaker finally agrees to make a quilt for a greedy king but only under certain conditions, she causes him to undergo a change of heart.