A friendship quilt is like a well-autographed yearbook that keeps you warm. To add something personal, a quiltmaker sends fabric swatches to friends to sign and then sews the patches into the quilt’s ...

As part of the ongoing 150th anniversary of the Civil War at the Smithsonian Institution, the Around the Mall team will be reporting in a series of posts on some of the illustrative artifacts held by ...

A rare autograph quilt crafted more than a century ago is providing historians a snapshot of Australian life in the late 1800s. But they need help from the public to fully understand the secrets woven ...