Quilts of Ohio's Western Reserve includes early quilts brought from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and contemporary quilts, including one by an Old Order Amish woman and a quilt inspired by Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Quilt makers in Oberlin, including fifth-generation descendants of abolitionists and slaves, produced the Underground Railroad Quilt in 1987.
Ricky Clark, one of Ohio's foremost quilt historians, has assembled exquisite examples of calamanco, T quilts, and borderless pieced quilts to show the history of Connecticut aesthetics and history...