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A little bit of American history is on display at the Wichita Art Museum. Five quilts – three of which date to the Civil War era – begin a two-part exhibition from the museum’s permanent collection.

Both the eagle and stars are outlined with a row of quilting very close to the appliquéd edge. Shell-pattern quilting enhances the eagle. The ground is quilted in a diagonal grid pattern of 8 stitches ...

In a common room at Williams College, a group of students sort through fabric squares, scarlet and indigo, pine green and chocolate. In Great Barrington, fiber artist Karen Eckmeier from Kent, Conn., ...