Massachusetts quilts

Editorial Staff

Recently more than two dozen of the most significant quilts discovered to date by the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project went on view at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell in the exhibition Massachusetts—Our Common Wealth: Quilts from the Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project, which runs through September 20. So far, some six thousand quilts have been documented as a result …

Inspired by antiques: An American moon and stars quilt

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This week I’m taking inspiration from a remarkable quilt that will be up for auction at Skinner’s American furniture and decorative arts sale this weekend (June 7).  Dating from the turn of the 20th century, the design of this pieced wool quilt is comprised of four-point stars set between thirty-five full circles and ten half circles—known as a “moon and …

Magazine July/August 2023

Subscribe to The Magazine ANTIQUES today! And sign-up for our newsletter! JULY/AUGUST 2023 Editor’s Letter Gregory Cerio Field NotesBlind Spots Elizabeth Pochoda Current and ComingA self-taught artist in the internment camps; the sculpture of William Edmondson at Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation ; women of the Hudson River school at the Thomas Cole House; Hector Guimard, Architecte d’art, at the Driehaus; and this …