The Works Progress Administration taught African-American and white women to make quilts through homemaker classes. Here, a group of South Carolina women work on quilting (sewing together the layers...
Quilts made in the African-American tradition are more free in form and in the combinations of colors than the carefully laid out regular patterns of quilts made by women working in European American...
A traditional skill of the mountain and Piedmont areas is the crafting of baskets out of carefully split white oak. Here, Franklin Deloach shows the first stage in the making of a white oak basket...