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  2. Bisa Butler - Wikipedia

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    This work is Butler's largest quilt to date, measuring approximately 11 x 13 feet, and features nine life-sized figures. [31] The photograph Butler used for this work is a 1919 black and white photograph of the 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters, from World War I. Butler says, "My work is to continue to lift them up in ...

  3. The American Collection (Ringgold) - Wikipedia

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    Cotton Fields, Sunflowers, Blackbirds, and Quilting Bees depicts a group of Black women sitting in a field full of cotton plants and sunflowers with several flocks of black birds flying in the distance. The figures are quilting together, creating a large checkerboard pattern quilt with dozens of sunflowers.

  4. Cuesta Benberry - Wikipedia

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    Cuesta Benberry (September 8, 1923 – August 23, 2007) was an American historian and scholar. [1] Considered to be one of the pioneers of research on quiltmaking in America, she was the pioneer of research on African-American quiltmaking.

  5. Freedom Quilting Bee - Wikipedia

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    The Bee quilts were stitched from scraps of cloth using patterns reflective of the history of Black quilting in the area. Some of these patterns included the Nine Patch, Monkey Wrench, the Lock and Key, Pine Burr, Missouri Star, The Bricklayer, Gentleman’s Bow Tie, The Chestnut Bud, Grandmother’s Choice, Grandmother’s Dream, Snowball, and ...

  6. Quilt - Wikipedia

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    Echo quilting, where a quilted outline of the appliqué pattern is repeated like ripples out to the edge of the quilt, is the most common quilting pattern employed on Hawaiian-style quilts. Beautiful examples are held in the collection of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum , Honolulu, Hawaii.

  7. Narrative quilting - Wikipedia

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    One of the most important quilt patterns that was seen throughout the American Indian communities was the Star Quilt. It had both common, utilitarian purposes, as well as ceremonial purposes. They also became very important to the economy of the reservation. [10] Star of Bethlehem Quilt. The Star Quilt pattern in quilting is an eight-pointed ...

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