The Needle and Thread Arts Society, a small non-profit organization co-founded by Gen Guracar in Mountain View, California, made three group quilts in the 1970s. This image is from one of those quilts made to voice objection to the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. The quiltmakers solicited signatures from prominent Americans, including Jeanette Rankin, Bella Abzug, Leonard Bernstein, Justice William O. Douglas, and Cesar Chavez. 

Title: 
Vietnam Era Signature Quilt, detail
Maker: 
Gen Guracar
Circa
 
1965
1973
Made in
 
Mountain View
 
California
United States
80
63.5
IQM, Gift of Needle and Thread Arts Society
2007.008.0001