enow.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: purple quilt
  2. macys.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month

    3180 Kingsdale Center, Columbus, OH · Directions · (614) 459-6494

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Sarah Mary Taylor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Mary_Taylor

    Sarah Mary Taylor was born on August 12, 1916, in Anding, Mississippi. [2] She learned quilting from her mother Pearlie Posey when she was young. She lived on plantations in the Mississippi Delta and worked as a housekeeper, cook, and field hand.

  3. Torrey Quilt Collection - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrey_Quilt_Collection

    The collection of 13 quilts includes a hand quilt by Mississippi quilter Sarah Mary Taylor that was made for the film The Color Purple as well as an appliquéd word quilt of hers. Two of the collection's quilts are by Taylor's mother, Pearlie Posey (1894–1984).

  4. Quilt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilt

    A quilt is a multi-layered textile, ... The most common colors are white, black, red, and yellow or orange with green, dark blue, or purple.

  5. Quilts of Gee's Bend - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilts_of_Gee's_Bend

    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.

  6. Everyday Use - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday_Use

    Quilting features in "Everyday Use" as a symbol of black heritage. Mama Johnson’s quilts symbolize cross-generational female bonding: they were sewn together by Grandma Dee, passed down to and then quilted by Mama and her sister, Big Dee. One quilt even features a piece of the uniform worn by their Great Grandpa Ezra during the Civil War.

  7. Quilting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilting

    Machine quilting needles are very sharp in order to readily pierce layers of quilt and properly sew together the quilt top, batting and backing. Hand quilting needles are traditionally called betweens and are generally smaller and stronger than normal sewing needles. They have a very small eye which prevents any extra bump at the head of the ...

  1. Ads

    related to: purple quilt