I recently was invited to do an appraisal event for the Clayton Branch of the American Association of University Women. The AAUW is an organization whose mission is to advance equity for women and ...

Q While cleaning out an aunt’s estate, we found a box full of fancy embroidered robes and quilts. My great-grandmother taught in China in about 1915 or 1920 so we guessed that these were things she ...

She was born in 1870, and we think she died in her 20s, so the quilt was probably made in the 1890s. APPRAISER: Well, it's the ultimate Victorian crazy quilt, and it's called a crazy quilt because ...

If you look closely, you can see the unfolding story of a well-to-do St. Paul, Minn., family stitched into the pieces of an elaborate Victorian crazy quilt, which dates to the 1890s. It tells of the ...

In the late 1800s making a crazy quilt to display in the parlor was fashionable for women of means. These quilts showcased expensive velvet, chenille and delicate silk fabrics, often salvaged from ...