these quilts just became history

Dinah Miller and the women of Gee’s Bend

Avis Collins Robinson, Mensie Lee Pettway and Andrea Pettway Williams titled this quilt “Sharecropper’s Masterpiece” (image via The National Museum of African American History & Culture)

Rainbow-colored diamonds on a turquoise background. Zigzags of plaid flannel, repurposed from old work shirts. Hot pink pinwheels swirling about a “Texas Star” design.

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