Editing Quilt (section)

====Story quilts====
{{See also|Narrative quilting}}

Story quilts have much in common with pictorial quilts and the tradition of African-American quiltmakers and are often made as a form of [[quilt art]]. Usually adorned with extensive text and accompanying imagery, story quilts can contain short stories, poems, or extended essays and can be used as an alternative form of a [[picture book]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dunn |first1=Margaret M. |last2=Morris |first2=Ann R. |title=Narrative Quilts and Quilted Narratives: The Art of Faith Ringgold and Alice Walker |journal=Explorations in Ethnic Studies |date=1 January 1992 |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=27–32 |doi=10.1525/ees.1992.15.1.27 |doi-broken-date=November 1, 2024 |s2cid=49555326 |url=https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1444&context=ees |access-date=26 April 2022|doi-access=free }}</ref> Artist [[Faith Ringgold]], known for her large portfolio of story quilts, has said she began making these narrative quilts with extensive text after being unable to find a publisher that would accept her autobiography. She began quilting so that "when my quilts were hung up to look at, or photographed for a book, people could still read my stories".<ref name="Crocker interview">{{Cite web|url=https://www.crockerart.org/press/february-opening-announced-faith-ringgold-an-american-artist|title="Faith Ringgold: An American Artist" to Open February 2018|website=Crocker Art Museum|access-date=27 April 2022}}</ref>

[[File:Pictorial Quilt with American Flag.jpg|thumb|Pictorial Quilt with American Flag, unknown maker, Ohio, cottons, c. 1930, dimensions: 64×75 inches. Collection of Bill Volckening, Portland, Oregon.]]