to identify and categorize African American quilts have been ongoing in quilt scholarship for at least three decades. It is generally agreed that quilts in this category are characterized by strips, bright colors, large designs, asymmetry, multiple patterns, symbolic forms, and improvisation and have their roots in African textile techniques and cultural traditions. But this tradition is as much shaped by process as by materials.
Author: Catherine E. Hutchins (ed.) · Original publisher: River City Publishing (Montgomery, AL, 2006), for the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
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