Cross Years Quilting

Quilting is used by black communities after learning it from white Americans during the slavery era. Many times in history, quilting has been used not simply as linen covering pillows or blankets, their flexibility to create became also a medium of protest. Protestors would create subversive images with the medium, often in large sizes.

“Feminist groups have employed quilted banners as a primary signifier of protest. Making use of textiles, needle-craft and embroidery, all tenets of so-called ‘women’s work’, the notion of reclamation has always been at the heart of the fight for women’s rights and, indeed, all forms of feminist art.”

(https://www.normanrea.com/blog/womens-work-as-protest-the-history-of-feminist-protest-quilts#:~:text=Throughout%20history%2C%20feminist%20groups%20have,all%20forms%20of%20feminist%20art.)