If you're looking for a winter craft project to dive into, why not make it a quilt – it's a lovely way to use up scraps of fabric left over from other projects, and a meditative craft to work on ...

Twenty-nine years ago, the AIDS Memorial Quilt was unfolded on the Mall for the first time, with 1,920 panels. Today, it has grown to more than 49,000. The project was the idea of Cleve Jones, a ...

Each of the quilt’s 48,000 panels is sewn in someone’s memory, though its growth has been paused as some volunteers shift their efforts toward the current pandemic.

Exhibition highlights include a panel from the AIDS Memorial Quilt and a piece crafted out of suit fabric by liberated survivors of the Dachau concentration camp.

A close-up of one of the quilts that will be in the exhibit. One family crest panel is stitched onto dark blue fabric, into what looks like blue origami cranes with Japanese stitching.

Quilting as a Radical Act: An Exhibition Examines the Art Form’s Revolutionary Impact A new exhibition delves into the history of quiltmaking in America, revealing how the traditional art has ...