Quilts reveal a lot about their makers and the craft in “What That Quilt Knows About Me,” an exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum, in New York City.
Some tell stories about the maker’s life or process. Others explore quilting technique, using different materials.
Sade Ayorinde, one of the curators, says her favorite piece is the Whig Rose and Swag Border Quilt. For decades, it was attributed to a white woman who owned a Kentucky plantation, but an old note pinned to the back reveals the truth: Enslaved women in the household were the real crafters. Emelie Gevalt, the museum’s curator of folk art and curatorial chair for collections, was especially drawn to one quilt from West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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