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Photo of Ellen Mobley's quilt taken in 1980 in Gulfport, Mississippi, before returning to Hagerstown. Ellen’s quilt passed into the hands of her sixth son, Harry Hiser Mobley (1855-1928).
NedRa Bonds (born 1948) is an American quilter, activist, and retired teacher, born and raised in the historic Quindaro neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas.Bonds creates quilts and mixed media fiber dolls using fabric, beads, and symbolism to explore issues dealing with human rights, race, women, politics, and the environment.
Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook by Kyra E. Hicks, McFarland & Company, (2002) pages 25, 59, 62 A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories by Roland L. Freeman , Thomas Nelson (1996)Pages 59–60, 123, 166, 167-71, 198-99, 311
Wanting to make quilts for her daughters to take to college, Magee enrolled in a quilting class in 1989. [3] After completing classes at Joy's Craft Shop in Jackson and Anne's Quilt Shop in Clinton, Magee learned about the Jackson Quilters and the Mississippi Quilt Association, where she was the only African American member of the groups at that time. [5]
Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 – August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since.
In 1977, Hopkins opened a quilt shop in Santa Monica called Crazy Ladies and Friends. Hopkins' short book, The Double Wedding Ring Book, was released in 1981 and her first full-length book, The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book, in 1982. She founded a company, ME Publishing First Printing, to publish the latter.
In 2009, Michigan State University Museum acquired Benberry's extensive American and African-American quilt ephemera and quilt history collections as well as her quilt kit collection. From December 6, 2009, to December 12, 2010, the museum hosted the exhibit, "Unpacking Collections: The Legacy of Cuesta Benberry, An African American Quilt Scholar."
A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.