Barn quilts are beautiful, geometric designs that come in a variety of shapes and mediums. Cynthia Buchholz took on this art form as a signature style. Once an artist invested in oil painting, ...
Leonardo da Vinci used sacred geometry to create his art. Two years ago, Sharon Schamber began to do the same with her quilt, Spirit of Mother Earth. The effort paid off this week, when Schamber again ...
Most folks have probably never thought about what it would look like if polygons started getting freaky with each other, but Libs Elliott is not most folks. The Toronto-based textile artist merges the ...
NORTH PLAINFIELD — For a group of Somerset County fifth-graders, lessons on acute and obtuse angles were woven into discussions about running stitches and batting material. Forty students at Somerset ...
SOLDIERS GROVE, Wis. - A person can get lost looking at this quilt. The neat rows of colorful blocks seem to float above a black calico background filled with stars. Some of the designs swirl, some ...
Audree Sells applied her love of art and painting to quilting, and quilting has been the same. Contemporary quilters have Sells to thank, in part, for taking quilting to a different level, from bed ...
Preface -- Introduction -- Tailors' quilts and tailors' guilds -- Intarsias, kings' quilts and quilts depicting soldiers -- Soldiers, sailors, Crimean War -- Military tailors in India -- Epaulette ...