I thought I would continue talking about various colors from the 19th century. I will begin with MADDER RED. A dyestuff derived from the root of the madder plant (Rubia tinctorum), which is native to the eastern Mediterranean and Persia.

Colors are one clue you can use in dating quilts. There are natural dyes from plants like indigo, and synthetic dyes. I will be describing four dyes in my column this month.

One June 13th, 2022 the Greenville Quilters Guild made a delivery of quilts for our veterans

In the year 2000, the Gee’s Bends Quilters came into the forefront of American society. They were discovered” by someone in the contemporary art world. They were a group of ladies who lived in one of the poorest regions of Alabama. It was a multigenerational
community that had been making quilts for their family’s warmth for decades. These quilts were like any other utilitarian quilts that families made.

The May 12 meeting was completely dedicated to the Barn Quilts program.

In the early and middle of the twentieth century, there was not much going on in the way of quilt making on a national scale. Of course, local households were making quilts for warmth and some for show. But there was no one like Bonnie Hunter or Jenny Beyer around.

This month’s article on Quilt History comes to you via the Facebook Group Quilt
History South. Their recent discussion has been about Tied Bedcoverings. Are they
really quilts?

This month’s article comes from the last Six Know It Alls Zoom lecture. Specifically, from Julie Siber who was curator of the Esprit Collection of Amish Quilts founded in San Francisco in the early 1970s.

The information in this article comes from the 10th episode of the Six Know-It-Alls Masterpiece Quilts, on December 8, 2021.