A friendship quilt is like a well-autographed yearbook that keeps you warm. To add something personal, a quiltmaker sends fabric swatches to friends to sign and then sews the patches into the quilt’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In the early 1940s Welthea B. Thoday ...

Lisa Edmondson remembers looking at the embroidered signatures on feedsack-cloth blocks with her grandmother Louise Adams. After seeing the Thursday News Tribune story, "Decades-old blocks of ...

In the 1840s, the idea of friendship quilts, also known as signature or autograph quilts, started. These types of quilts came in and out of fashion but, in general, were given as gifts to friends who ...