Harriet Hockaday, who exhibited and won prizes for her quilts at various fairs, crafted this unique silk quilt. She combined the precise “Tumbling Blocks” pattern with elaborate embroidery to create ...

These days, quilt-making is considered a quintessentially everyday American pastime, but it was actually the province of the elite until Victoria Royall Broadhead, Tumbling Blocks Quilt,’ circa ...

Two historians say African American slaves may have used a quilt code to navigate the Underground Railroad. Quilts with patterns named "wagon wheel," "tumbling blocks," and "bear's paw" appear to have ...