The Common Thread: Quilt Grids
Posted: January 24, 2014
Category: “Workt By Hand”: Hidden Labor And Historical Quilts
In Quilts as Women’s Art: A Quilt Poetics, quilter and activist Radka Donnell discusses an organizational feature of the quilt—its “grid”—which she defines as the element that is “not locking...
![Vintage quilt in dark reds and greens on a cream background. In the center is a large eight-point Star of Bethlehem surrounded by Victorian floral appliques. The border, edged in dark red fabric, features matching floral garland appliques.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/American-Quilt-scaled-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)