Collectors and curators alike prize Amish quilts for their timeless simplicity and graphic style that can also look modern. Believe it or not, early German-speaking immigrants warmed their beds with ...

Starting in the 1970s, design professionals deemed the simple patterns and strong colors of antique Amish quilts thoroughly “modern,” and those quilts frequently were showcased in homes right through ...

The first time Stephen and Faith Brown saw an Amish quilt, they had a reaction similar to Emily Dickinson’s when she read a great poem: It felt like the tops of their heads were being blown off. That ...

Reality TV programming about Amish mafias notwithstanding, many people’s impressions of the Amish come from Hollywood, with images of bearded men in hats driving horse-drawn buggies and women in plain ...

Experience the power of modern quilts in an exhibit of 60 innovative and inspiring quilts that represent the best modern quilts and quilters of the past decade. "Modern Quilts: Designs of the New ...

Household handicrafts and heirlooms made by American women seen as precursors to modern art is one underlying thesis of “Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown,” a ...

The Amish don’t rely on gadgets or apps, but their everyday hacks get the job done—often better. Some of them include off-grid cooling, clever home organization, and old-school efficiency that still ...

Just as people who buy the New Yorker for its cartoons feel they’ve gotten their money’s worth without reading beyond the punch lines, readers may take this up for the pictures alone: they are ...

Celebrating National Quilting Day with a gift of Amish quilts Laura Baptiste Untitled (Old Maid's Puzzle). Holmes County, Ohio, circa 1930. This is the first quilt the Brown’s purchased, in 1976, that ...

FLINT — Even with a strong culture of minimalism and uniformity, the Amish have found their own “Sunday best” to display: quilts. “In this very sheltered environment without interaction with ...

Amish women from the turn of the last century didn’t intend for their quilts to be works of modern art, but that’s exactly what happened, as evidenced by last year’s Amish Quilts exhibit at the Denver ...