Although this quilt’s maker is unknown, its collector attributed it to an African American quiltmaker. While IQSC has no reason to question this information, many unattributed quilts with a similar haphazard, improvisational feel have been classified as African American because they adhere to style characteristics some scholars have identified as African American, with supposed origins in African textile traditions.

Pattern: 
Everybody Quilt
Maker: 
Maker unknown
Circa
1975
Possibly made in
Birmingham
Alabama
United States
80.5
70
IQM, Robert and Helen Cargo Collection
2000.004.0010