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Fabric of Their Lives

The quilting tradition in Gee's Bend goes back to the 1800s, when slaves fashioned bedcovers out of strips of cloth. Arlonzia Pettway's "Lazy Gal" quilt is from c. 1975.

Arlonzia Pettway's "Lazy Gal" c. 1975, Collection of the Tinwood Alliance

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