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Cover Me Up: Quilts and their Substitutes in Southern Fiction by Kay Walter and Arley-Beth Cravey

The tradition of American Patchwork Quilting is nowhere more vital than in the Mississippi Delta. The Gee’s Bend quilters, a group of rural Alabama African American women descended from enslaved people who create abstract quilts using improvisational designs, made their Delta quilting world-famous. A quilt can be many things, but at base it is a … Continue reading Cover Me Up: Quilts and their Substitutes in Southern Fiction by Kay Walter and Arley-Beth Cravey