Here is a five minute You Tube presentation about antique red and blue applique quilts, which are actually appliqued red and green quilts where the overdyed green has faded to blue. American Quilt Study Group’s Lenna DeMarco is the presenter.
And Still We Rise: African American Story Quilts
African American Story Quilt Exhibition Opens at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley
An exhibition of contemporary story quilts illustrating significant moments in African American history will be on view in the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) in Winchester, Virginia, through December 31, 2016.
And Still We Rise: African American Story Quilts narrates four centuries of African American history through the display of sixty-nine story quilts. All the textiles were created by an international group of artists in the Women of Color Quilters Network.