Although WPA sewing rooms produced garments in substantial numbers, many of them also included quiltmaking. While some sewing rooms made quilts from scraps left from other sewing, others—including the massive racially integrated operation in New York City at 10th Avenue and 36th Street, generated utilitarian whole cloth (without a decorative pieced or appliquéd top) quilts and comforters as part of their regular output.

Title: 
Quilt, 10th Ave. & 36th St.
Maker: 
Andrew Herman
1937
Federal Art Project
Museum of the City of New York, 43.131.4.20