For example, when "crazy quilts" became popular in the late 1800s, they were seen as beautiful but merely a means to keep idle women occupied, not art. Today, crazy quilts are held in higher ...

Crazy quilts were extremely popular after the Civil War. ... What remains is still a work of art. The quilt was one of 11 Zercher showed during a talk explaining the history of quilting in ...

Nancy Baker has one of the wittiest and most serious post-modern minds in Raleigh. On the walls of her Tire Shop, in beautifully painted replicas of 15th and 16th century illuminated manuscripts ...

Artist unidentified; initialed J.F.R., Cleveland-Hendricks Crazy Quilt, 1885-1890.Lithographed silk ribbons, silk, and wool with cotton fringe and silk and metallic embroidery. American Folk Art ...

Crazy Quilting And what is life? A crazy quilt; Sorrow and joy, and grace and guilt, With here and there a square of blue ... It is my art. Crazy quilts are my passion. ...

Mary Mathews has come a long way since her first log cabin crazy quilt in 25 years. She started improvising and learned to see her art with a different lens.

A public arts movement in the North Country, painted wooden quilt squares known as Barn Quilts, continues to grow in popularity. The town of... Aug 03, 2018 — A public arts movement in the North ...