Sep 16, 2024 | Collections
What do you think of when you hear the ABC’s? Do you think about the song, blocks or other children’s toys? What about embroidery samplers? Or a quilt? This object story asks you to travel back in time with us to learn about the alphabet’s numerous appearances in textiles, how it evolved, and how important it is to historians today.
Sep 3, 2024 | Collections
Ever wondered how we store over 300 quilts? Learn all about it in this article by Alex Truesdell.
Feb 4, 2021 | Collections
Tiffany interprets Elizabeth Gossom Roberts’ sampler, comparing it to a recent interpretation from her forthcoming book.
Nov 19, 2020 | Collections
The woman in this icon is a mysterious figure. Thought to have lived in the 3rd century, in present-day Lebanon, no reference was made to her until the 7th century and, even then, doubts continued to the present day. Yet hagiographies (biographies of the saints)...
Nov 12, 2020 | Collections
Listen, lords, in bower and hall,I sing the wonderous birthOf brave St. George, whose valorous armRid monsters from the earth-“The Birth of St. George” as recorded by Thomas Percy in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) St. George is celebrated across Europe,...
Nov 5, 2020 | Collections
On this day, sixty years ago, the youngest man was elected to our nation’s highest office. His name was John F. Kennedy. John was a born-and-bred American, of Irish descent, who had been educated at Harvard and served in the United States’s Navy in World...
