Every Quilt Tells a Story: I'd love to write a narrative about a quilt that "speaks" to me
Channel: Susan Nash
Date: 2022-07-12

For your essay, you might consider telling the story of a fascinating piece of history. Here are quilts from the Smithsonian Institute's National Quilt Collection. They start as far back as 1750. All of them fascinate me. I'm most intrigued by the one quilted by an African-American quiltmaker. I was hoping for a Lakota Star Quilt, but there were none on the website.  What are your thoughts? 
What caused the people to create patterns in certain forms?

"Quilt": A cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton or other substance between two cloths and sewing them together. An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, LL.D., New York 1828. 
https://www.si.edu/spotlight/national-quilt-collection