For Atkins, sewing beads onto quilts “is a great deal more than just embellishment.” A former sculptor, Atkins paints with beads, using the fabric as his canvas; he balances bead with fabric by giving ...

Art and craft come together beautifully at the 22nd annual Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival, today through Sunday at the Hampton Roads Convention Center. The show includes textile and fiber arts, among ...

Another staple of down-home America is back in style. Quilts, now a $144 million industry, have been “modernized” with such new twists as scalloped edges and beading. While Americana designs reign, ...

Art quilts are just that, works of original art that are made of fiber, complete with embellishments like beading. She also does modern quilting, a new trend that breaks away from your grandmother's ...

Beading, painting, and healing characterize the creation of a quilt being made to honour the memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The Ontario Native Women's Association in Thunder Bay, ...