Deep inside the forests of Karnataka’s Uttara Kannada district, the Siddi community continues to preserve a rare and deeply personal quilting tradition known as kawandi.

History, music and photography are all stitched together in a show at the Art Institute of Chicago. We visit the pandemic-delayed exhibition “Bisa Butler: Portraits” to get the story behind these Technicolor textiles.

Toronto-based textile artist Justin Ming Yong reimagines quilting in an age of mechanics, transforming the personal into the public.

Quick, Easy and Fun! Recycle Your Old T-shirts Into A Memory Quilt.