“Quilting with a Modern Slant” by Rachel May is full of quilting tips and tricks, as well as ideas on how to make a quilt that builds on the aesthetics of traditional and art quilts. Quilting with a ...

From a treasured heirloom passed down from a grandmother to a modern wall hanging crafted in a studio, quilting covers a wide swath these days. But the terms remain largely unchanged. A quilt is made ...

In a common room at Williams College, a group of students sort through fabric squares, scarlet and indigo, pine green and chocolate. In Great Barrington, fiber artist Karen Eckmeier from Kent, Conn., ...

If the African American tradition of quilting has begun to find its place in the contemporary art world, it’s thanks in no small part to Carolyn Mazloomi, a self-taught quilter who has been a champion ...

It was a foregone conclusion that Rachel D.K. Clark would make quilts. It was part of her family’s heritage. “My great-great-grandma sewed, my great-grandma sewed, my grandma sewed, and my mom sewed,” ...

Rennie Zulu, “Twelve Squares of Traditional Culture in South Africa" (1999) and Crossroad Quilters, “Sacred Animals II Quilt” (2000) (all images courtesy Collection of the Mississippi Museum of Art) ...