In the 20th century, it has been much more common for quiltmakers to incorporate a variety of scraps into quilts, particularly by those who due to economic class, have little access to new cloth. This quilt, made in an isolated community in the Deep South, exemplifies the resourcefulness of impoverished quiltmakers in using up the scraps they have. String quilts like this, stitched together from haphazard shapes of leftover or used fabrics were a particularly good means of creating a quilt from the scrapbag.