Painstakingly researched, accurately detailed renderings of 42 authentic early American quilt designs including: Basket of Scraps, Sunflower Star, Split Rail, C

Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art

A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman c

“With its diverse selection of fabrics and designs, A Quilting Life is a fine pick for any quilter looking to produce family-oriented keepsake results.” —

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, “Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because wom