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  2. Quilt trail - Wikipedia

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    Two barn quilts on the U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum in Paintsville, Kentucky on the U.S. 23 Quilt Trail.. A quilt trail is a series of barn quilts (painted wood or metal hung or freestanding quilt squares) installed along a route emphasizing significant architecture and/or aesthetic landscapes.

  3. List of North American pieced quilt patterns - Wikipedia

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    Tumbling Blocks pattern, assembled in the 1870s (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum) Patchwork quilts are made with patterns, many of which are common designs in North America. Anvil [1] Basket [1] Bear Paw [1] Brick Work [2] Churn Dash [1] Corn and Beans [1] Dogwood and Sunflower [1] Double Wedding Ring [1] Dove in the Window [1] Dresden ...

  4. Hex sign - Wikipedia

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    Drawing from a large repertoire of designs, barn painters combined many elements in their decorations. The geometric patterns of quilts can be seen in the patterns of many hex signs. Hearts and tulips seen on barns are commonly found on elaborately lettered and decorated birth, baptism, and marriage certificates known as fraktur. [4]

  5. Folk art of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Patterns are sometimes modeled off of family quilts, loved ones, patriotic themes, or important crops to the farm. [17] The origins of the barn quilt are contested- some claim they date back almost 300 years, but some claim they were invented by Donna Sue Groves of Adams County, Ohio in 2001. [18] Their origin is likely connected to barn ...

  6. Quilt - Wikipedia

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    They take the patterns of traditional quilt squares, and recreate them either directly on the side of a barn or on a piece of wood or aluminum which is then attached to the side of a barn. [27] Patterns are sometimes modeled off of family quilts, loved ones, patriotic themes, or important crops to the farm. [28] The origins of the barn quilt ...

  7. Quilts of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    In Stitched from the Soul (1990), Gladys-Marie Fry asserted that quilts were used to communicate safe houses and other information about the Underground Railroad, which was a network through the United States and into Canada of "conductors", meeting places, and safe houses for the passage of African Americans out of slavery.

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