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2. Viola Canady - Wikipedia

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   Viola Canady was born on November 3, 1922, to Charlie Williams and Lillie Grady. She grew up in Goldsboro, North Carolina, before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1945. [1] In 1960, she began to work as a tailor for the US Army sewing uniforms, most notably working on the uniform of General Douglas MacArthur.

3. List of LGBT Academy Award winners and nominees - Wikipedia

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   Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt: Won [263] 1992 David Haugland: Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker: Nominated [265] 2000 Frances Reid: Long Night's Journey into Day: Nominated [266] 2006 Laura Poitras: My Country, My Country: Nominated [267] 2012 David France: How to Survive a Plague: Nominated [268] Howard Gertler ...

4. Bisa Butler - Wikipedia

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   Butler's quilts are featured in art books such as Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama (2010) [42] and Collaborations: Two Decades of African American Art : Hearne Fine Art 1988-2008 (2008), [43] and on websites such as Blavity [14] and Colossal. [28] In 2019, she was a finalist for the Museum of Art and Design's Burke ...

5. Ernest Burkhart - Wikipedia

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   Ernest George Burkhart (September 11, 1892 – December 1, 1986) was an American murderer who participated in the Osage Indian murders as a hitman for his uncle William King Hale's crime ring. He was convicted for the killing of William E. Smith in 1926, and sentenced to life imprisonment .

6. Window valance - Wikipedia

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   Window valances are also called window top treatments.The earliest recorded history of interior design is rooted in the renaissance Era, a time of great change and rebirth in the world of art and architecture, and much of this time saw understated, simple treatments, eventually moving towards more elaborate fabrics of multiple layers of treatments, including, towards the end of this period ...

7. History of quilting - Wikipedia

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   Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.