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title: "People & Stories"
date: 2026-04-24
author: "QuiltAdmin"
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# People & Stories

[A Red and White Quilt Show](https://quilthistory.com/a-red-and-white-quilt-show/)

[“A Brief History of the ‘Feedsack'”](https://quilthistory.com/a-brief-history-of-the-feedsack/) by the late Jane Clark Stapel. The founder of the Feedsack Club provides some historical background on this American phenomenon. Feedsacks fed a nation and clothed it, too. Learn how feedbags went from practical necessity to beloved quilting fabric in American history.

[The Influence of 19th Century Women’s Lives on Textiles](https://quilthistory.com/textile-influences-on-women/)

[The Civil War Quilt,](https://quilthistory.com/a-civil-war-quilt-finds-its-home/)  
Diane and Jim Lockwood embark on an adventure when they purchase an old Georgia quilt. A thrift shop crazy quilt made from Civil War uniforms leads one couple on a journey through history, battlefields, and a Georgia family’s secrets.

**I’m working retrieving information from the old site. These are the articles I hope to get online soon:**

[Quilts and women’s lives](https://quilthistory.com/stitched-into-history/)  
Quilting communities and social groups  
Quilts as storytelling objects  
Quilts and migration (westward expansion, etc.)  
Quilts in African American history (e.g., Gee’s Bend)  
Quilts in wartime and political movements