Gee’s Bend, Alabama quilters, “Sewing a Quilt” from the Library of Congress archives. More photos here.
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“Why a Quilt? Because quilts are about caring. Quilts are about comfort and about physical and emotional warmth. Quilts are about relatedness, connectedness, intimacy. And in their color, design, scale, and variety, quilts are about human creativity, human imagination, and the richness and fullness of human life itself.”
Letter to Nora Ezell from Jim (James) Sokol, April 4, 1991. (From a note Sokol left in a book he gave to Ezell, later written in her diary.) My Quilts and Me: The Diary of an American Quilter, by Nora Ezell. [Black Belt Press, 1999.]
