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There’s only one small photo, but it’s not every day I come across news of a quilt exhibit in #Lagos to share here and this one does seem particularly interesting. I hope more on the exhibit book becomes available closer to its publication date […]

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Like that this Taft #Museum quilt show is offering accompanying workshops on indigo dying

Love that on Sundays and Mondays the exhibit is free

Story:
www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/new-taft-exhibit...

Museum link […]

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Another article about the Routed West quilt show at BAMPHA, but this one has new info I hadn’t seen before, including that Trump cuts to museum funding are really screwing things up for quilt collections featuring Black quilters […]

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I notice quilts (shocked aren't you?) Always point them out on House Hunters, will stop watching to photograph quilts used in TV shows and movies

Long story short, I noticed a quilt in the background of the photo accompanying this news article so I clicked thru -- learned nothing about the […]

Nice article about an Alaskan quilter making quilts to support her family back in #Ukraine. She has a lovely, lyrical style to her work

www.juneauindependent.com/post/ukrainian-artist-qu...

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😂😂😂

No, seriously, I can stop laughing (and crying)

twistedsifter.com/2025/10/family-obsessed-...

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Not entirely sure I liked this quilt article, something about it felt inauthentic — but I was off put from the start by the ridiculous subtitle “The history of quilting, from Jenny Doan to Carolyn Mazloomi” 🙄

www.deseret.com/magazine/2025/10/04/quil...

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Another panel quilt awareness project inspired by the AIDS quilt, this time with a focus on climate change. The organizers are actively looking for quilters who want to participate (second link)

www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5821/binghamt... […]

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Is this a super niche quilting story? Yes. Something about it still moved me.

“It was a long, but very meaningful journey and lots of people involved. It just makes you realize the impact one person can have in this world” […]

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Not a lot of quilt pictures, but some fascinating quilt history in this article, including “Dinah Miller (née Jenkins) was the earliest known quiltmaker in Gee’s Bend … Illegally kidnapped from West Africa, torn from her family, and sold into slavery as a young girl in 1860, Miller was brought […]

History Of National Batik Day: From UNESCO's Recognition To The Symbol Of National Pride The history of National Batik Day stems from UNESCO's recognition on October 2, 2009. Check out the long journey of batik as a world cultural heritage to become a symbol of the pride of the Indonesian nation.

Another article on National Batik Day -

https://voi.id/en/lifestyle/519949

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The Vibrant Celebration of National Batik Day - Seasia.co National Batik Day is a joyous celebration of Indonesia's rich cultural heritage, showcasing the country's iconic batik fabric and its significance in the natio

TIL that National Batik Day​ (Indonesian: Hari Batik Nasional) is celebrated on October 2

seasia.co/2025/10/02/the-vibrant-c...

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"Looking beyond the quiltmaker, “An Ecology of Quilts” is centered around the origins of textile production and how it informs the artistry of quiltmaking, exploring the environmental and social impact of cultivating and harvesting raw materials; the networks of overland and ocean trade required […]

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This article starts out assuming you know a bit of obscure West Virginia history, but the effort to reproduce the quilt in question is pretty interesting (the pics are on a carousel at the top, I almost missed them) […]

Julé Cunningham (@JD_Cunningham@sunny.garden) These warm, intimate, and slightly melancholy quilted portraits and scenes created by textile artist Hangama Amiri tell stories from the time of her family's migration from Kabul when she was a child. She sources all the fabric she uses for these pieces from Afghanistan. #art #quilting #quilts #FiberArt #TextileArt @fiberarts@a.gup.pe https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/hangama-amiri-textile-portraits/

Boosting with #Quilting and #QuiltingNews hashtags (really looking forward to quoots)

https://sunny.garden/@JD_Cunningham/115243375844440986

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“While he couldn’t find her cemetery plot and much of Ziller’s history remains open to conjecture, the quilt she left behind tells us she was loved, loved enough for a small child to carry her handiwork with her for nearly all her years” […]

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The quilt pictures are too small, and the story is harrowing, but worth the read if you’ve had a shitty day and are feeling like nothing you you create could possibly matter given everything else going on […]

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Stumbled on a what looked like a fun 2-day virtual quilting event and thought about posting the info here, but of the *28* featured speakers not a single one appeared to be a person of color. As always it's tough to tell from photos, but not a single one was visibly Brown or Black

All those […]

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I really enjoy the way @benmillett.us talks about his quilt art

For those who aren’t bridged:
www.printmag.com/culturally-related-desig...

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Some quilt history I was unaware of! I mean I generally knew sewing tech changed the industry but still cool to hear where/when it all started […]

New Mexico State Fair ribbon quilt now on display in Smithsonian Carol Johnson stitched over 600 of her New Mexico State Fair ribbons into a quilt and earned another ribbon – plus a spot in the Smithsonian.

Thought this was a cute meta story about a quilt made of state fair ribbons winning a state fair ribbon, but the quilter’s backstory is kinda 😭

CW Alcoholism
www.kob.com/news/new-mexico-state-fa...

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Usually I’m posting a fairly famous quilter for #QuiltingNews, but I kind of liked this story of a regular woman who has been making a quilt a week for 24 yrs (sadly not a lot of pictures) […]

Screenshot from a news article preview with a headline that reads “Not your grandmother's quilts | Geneseo Quilt Guild - OurQuadCities”

Congratulations to Our Quad Cities for using the most trite headline imaginable on their quilting news article!

(no link because fuck them for being so unoriginal)

#Quilting #QuiltingNews

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"This is an homage to the AIDS memorial quilt of the 1980s as well as a stark warning to Congress of what could happen if they fail to take action."

#SanFrancisco group creates quilts to protest proposed federal cuts to HIV programs […]

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"women have not only braved every restriction society has placed upon us, but responded creatively and resourcefully, using our bare hands to weave opposition into the fabric of everyday life" […]

Abominable Tariffs:#4: Domestic Cotton _Cotton Reels by Jeanne Arnieri_ Tariffs or Import Taxes are believed by some economists to encourage domestic manufacture. Whether that is a good or practical idea depends on the trade. We are interested in cotton prints. Before you have prints you have cotton yardage. In the 1878 ad above you can see that plain "Sea Island" yardage was more expensive than "Quilt Lining." Sea Island cotton meant fine cotton. We do not print cottons in the United States. Naive and/or gullible fabric customers may think taxes on cotton yardage from Japan, Korea, India and other Asian nations will return U.S.-produced cottons to our quilt shops. Below and next post: Two major reasons why that will not happen: 1) Domestic production for quiltmaking stashes and garments would mean the cotton is grown in the U.S. One has to understand the agricultural needs of the fussy cotton plant to know why that will not happen. Vinay Shekhar's slide showing types of cotton and their quality---- measured by the length of the "staple." Historically, problems began with the boll weevil. We used to grow quite fine cotton (long staple) in the Sea Islands off the Carolinas & other parts of the Lowland South but this hardy insect upended those economics in the early 20th century. _ _1914 advice for cotton farmers_ _ With strong insecticides you can kill the weevils that destroy the cotton but it's not a healthy prospect for the humans and animals in the area. Rather than poison the neighbors and their dogs the American cotton industry just gave up on fine cotton agriculture over 100 years ago. Southern Asia does not have the weevil problem and they have taken over the finer cotton production. _Employees of the Coats Cotton Knitting Mill, Lake City, Florida,_ _Early-20th-Century_ Teddy Pruett who lives in North Florida discovered that cotton mills in her area once produced cotton yarn for knitting. "When the boll weevil wiped out cotton crops throughout the south, we were out of business. This area produced cotton all through my growing up years, but thousands of acres of cotton in the fifties and sixties is all gone now." She adds: "It’s my understanding that the weevil eradication programs have been extremely successful. I have read some articles from University of Florida and it would appear there’s really nothing to keep us from growing cotton." After a century we have vanquished the weevil. So why do we not grow fine cotton? _A recent harvester from John Deere_ Virginia Berger found an answer. Sea Island cotton, the fine stuff, requires some TLC that machine harvesting cannot provide. Skilled farmworkers in Asia harvest fine cotton by hand, carefully pulling the bolls from the plants. https://knowingfabric.com/what-is-sea-island-cotton-fabric/ _India_ Americans do not want those kind of jobs. When I worked at a Chicago hospital many years ago my friends used to tell me about their teen-age years picking cotton in Arkansas. They were happier in Chicago---much happier. _ Cotton Reels by Jeanne Arnieri _ Cotton, once a principal foundation of the U.S. economy and a major excuse for slavery, remains a very useful commodity worldwide and an important export in our international trade. But not fine cotton. _ _1939 article on California Cotton_ _ The U.S produced 14.4 million bales of cotton last year and exported a good deal of it. Some goes for clothing but other industrial uses include cottonseed oil, tires & furniture. We also see sturdy cottons in items such as canvas cotton bags - a good use for American-grown cotton===bags printed and stitched overseas. Even if we developed modern, efficient American technology for printing on cotton yardage we would still be importing the goods. Those who tell us we should return to raising high-quality cotton know very little about the cotton industry. _Machine-stitched reverse-applique quilt from 1908 of short staple cotton,_ _coarse fabric not viable for fine sewing_ See previous posts on import taxes and quilting fabric: https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/08/abominable-tariffs1-free-trade.html https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/08/abominable-tariffs2-civil-war.html https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/08/abominable-tariffs-3-de-minimus-import.html https://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/08/abominable-tariffs4-domestic-cotton_0520044382.html

Why cotton fabric production isn't coming back to the US, Trump's dumbass tariffs aside

barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2025/08/abominable-tarif...

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Commemorative quilt, plaque unveiled as York County closes 275th anniversary year York County held a closing ceremony Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025 to mark the end of a year-long celebration marking the county's 275th anniversary.

I just love it when a quilt has a role in a civic celebration

www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/08...

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Newry Visit for ‘Grannies for Gaza’ Quilt The Newry branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s (IPSC) weekly ‘pots and pans’ protest for Gaza have a very special 'guest' arriving next Thursday, 28 August with the arrival of the now famous ‘Grannies for Gaza’ quilt in Newry, as part of its journey around Ireland. Created by Craftivism for Palestine, the ‘Grannies for Gaza’ quilt was made by a collective of women and allies from 32 counties in Ireland and further afield.  Each of the quilt’s 2,300 hand-crocheted squar...

This ‘quilt’ turned out to be a crochet project, not fabric, but it’s still a great bit of craftivism out of #Ireland by the Grannies for #Gaza

www.newry.ie/articles/news/newry-visi...

#QuiltingNews #Crochet #Craftivism

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The NYT obituary of quilt collector Shelly Zegart is available as a gift article in this post (several quilt pics are part of the article) -

https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115068451729893025

Interesting woman. One of my favorite quilts (the Kentucky Graveyard Quilt) was, IIRC, first […]

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[Quilting News (CW for sexual violence)]

Sometimes even I’m surprised by how many causes have turned to quilts for healing ❤️‍🩹 I missed this one back when it was active (2013-2019) but the message that survivors of sexual and intimate partner violence are not alone will always resonate

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