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American Quilts: Art and Craft

The National Quilt Collection at the National Museum of American History reveals how a useful practice can represent artistic, cultural, and historic storytelling. A significant number of American quilts can be found in the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery, the Anacostia Community Museum, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Explore a selection below. 


1840 - 1860 Hexagon Silk Quilt

Freedom Quilt

I Go To Prepare A Place For You

1825 - 1850 Silk Quilt

Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty

48-State Quilt

Pieced Quilt

1885 - 1886 Harriet Powers's Bible Quilt

1899 Lydia Finnell's "Star Quilt"

1825 - 1835 Betsy Totten's "Rising Sun" Quilt

Quilt

Ribbon Shirt Quilt

1850 - 1900 "Sunburst" Pieced and Appliqued Quilt

1839 Frances M. Jolly's Quilt Top

Crazy Quilt

1979 - 1980 Francoise Barnes' "Inhibitions II" Quilt

1845 - 1852 Baltimore Album Quilt

1861 Mary Rockhold Teter's "Stars and Stripes" Quilt

1900 - 1925 Amish "Hanging Diamond" Quilt

Quilt

Unfinished quilt top (honeycomb)

Baby's quilt

Harvest Star

Sowing Truth and Justice Quilt presented to Stacey Abrams

Crash Quilt

Red and white pieced and appliqued star quilt

1876 Ellen Harding Baker's "Solar System" Quilt

Black Uncle Sam pieced miniature quilt

Crazy Quilt

Pink and yellow pinwheel quilt made by Elizabeth Salter Smith

The Blue Print

Sharecropper’s Masterpiece

Quilt

Quilt #150: Rehoboth Meander

Quilt #86

Crucifixion

Star Quilt


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