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    The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's...
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    the Quilters of Gee's Bend, Amish quilts, Nancy Crow, Denyse Schmidt, Gwen Marston, Yoshiko Jinzenji, Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle. The Modern Quilt Guild...
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    Boykin, Alabama (redirect from Gee's Bend)
    released a sheet of ten commemorative stamps bearing images of Gee's Bend quilts sewn between c.1940 and 2001. The quilts and quilters are featured at...
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    the word "quilt" can also be used to refer to an unquilted duvet or comforter.) There are many traditions regarding the uses of quilts. Quilts may be made...
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  • J. (2002). Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts. Greece: Tinwood Books. Arnett, W. (2006). Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt. Greece: Tinwood...
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  • Loretta Pettway Bennett (category Gee's Bend quilters)
    knit and she sold a few of her mother's quilts among her friends in Germany. Truly understanding the depth of Gee's Bend's quilts national importance overwhelmed...
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  • Louisiana Bendolph (category Gee's Bend quilters)
    artist and quilt maker. Bendolph is associated with The Quilts of Gee's Bend and her work has been considered more conceptual because of her use of vibrant...
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  • Flora Moore (category Gee's Bend quilters)
    a pillar of Gee's Bend's quilting community. In fact, seeing the quilts hanging in Witherspoon's yard, an early gathering place for quilters before the...
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    Lucy Mingo (category Gee's Bend quilters)
    American quilt maker and member of the Gee's Bend Collective from Gee's Bend (Boykin), Alabama. She was an early member of the Freedom Quilting Bee, which...
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  • Gloria Hoppins (category Gee's Bend quilters)
    associated with the Gee's Bend group of quilters. Her work is included in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum. Born in Gee's Bend, Hoppins' parents were...
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