Amish women began making quilts around 1850, much later than their non-Amish neighbors. In keeping with Amish principles, they worked with simple designs embellished only with ornate quilting.

Historically, Amish women made quilts from the fabrics on hand in their homes, Bearley points out. That make-do aesthetic is also evident among today’s quilters.

Regarding the April 23 story about Amish quilts made by Asian women: I’m shocked! My vision of sweet Amish women sitting in a quaint living room having a quilting bee has been destroyed. That ...

But in the early 1970s, quilts made in Amish communities swelled in popularity among collectors, who drew visual parallels between these objects and the aesthetics of modernist abstraction; as a ...

Even with a strong culture of minimalism and uniformity, the Amish have found their own “Sunday best” to display: quilts.

Six Amish-made quilts owned by the Heritage Center of Lancaster have been selected for "Picturing America," a National Endowment for the Humanities art education program that will be used to teach ...

JACKSONPORT - Amish quilts, handcrafted Amish items, Amish snacks, artist demonstrations and more once again can be found in Door County when the fall edition of the twice-a-year Art, Craft and ...

The Art, Craft and Amish Quilt Sale features more than 100 quilts that will be shown and are for sale in a variety of sizes and patterns, along with Amish-made decor and crafts by local artisans ...

An upcoming exhibition at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum will take a fresh look at the museum’s unparalleled collection of Amish quilts. “Amish Quilts and the Crafting of ...