A patchwork quilt covering a bed in a country B&B or hanging on a museum wall evokes nostalgia for simpler times. Using simple shapes—triangles, squares, trapezoids, octagons—and the clever ...

The author served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Gabon before working in Mali. "How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches in our ...

Hand-crafted, sustainable and incredibly charming, patchwork quilts and fabrics are making a real comeback, and they are much ...

You've probably slept under an old quilt at some point in your life. A patchwork blanket that's been passed down through family members or styled at the beach house you frequented growing up. It's the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Multiple, polymorphous, variegated, the paradigmatic motif of patchwork generates the weft and the weave of the meaning of Whitney Otto's ...