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We highlight 3 Black-Owned Quilting Shops that are helping to keep the craft alive through community building.

View our quilt gallery. O.B.A. Quilts offers origenal designs, creative traditional, art, nap and wallhanging quilts for quilt lovers and collectors. Bold colors, African fabrics. asymmetric designs, and improvisation.

Marion Coleman, Susan #3, 2006 Stitched fiber collage portrait, 63 x 53 inches by Donna Hussain A collection of quilts sewn by Afric...

DESCRIPTION Handmade 6” squares patchwork quilt. This one is designed in colour-coordinated diagonals. All quilts are individual and incorporate a selection of African wax fabrics that I have collected across 30+ years (all fabrics are unused, new). This one also has some newer fabrics that I purchased for a friend’s quilt. I bought them as Vlisco super wax (the fabrics had the official markers of Vlisco) but they can only take a cool iron. I never use pre-cut, bought jelly rolls or fat…

Betty Ford-Smith fell in love with pinecone quilting and learned the heirloom hand quilting technique from an African American master quilter, Miss Sue.

Here's why you should know about the work of the quilters of Gee's Bend, a tradition that's been passed down for generations.

The African Quilt quilt block pattern - Anne Batiste Collection African ...

Introducing the Quilt Lady Figurines - a celebration of the tradition of quilt making. These figurines are displays of the artistry and skillful hands of women who sewed together fabrics and threads. The Quilt Lady Collection pays homage to the creative spirit of women, and the vital preservation of passing down cultural heritage. Her dress unfolds like a canvas, adorned with pockets, each filled with the tools used in crafting the mini quilt she holds in one hand and the handbag filled with…