Category: History and Culture

I Dropped the Button Box quilt – a Millennium quilt

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The “I dropped the button box” crazy quilt is a Y2K quilt. What is a Y2K Quilt? It is a Millennium quilt. At the turn of the century as it approached quilters made quilts that had 2000 or 2001 different pieces of fabric in them. Millennium or Y2K quilts were …

William Morris Society

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William Morris (1834-96), was a designer, writer, and typographer. The William Morris Society highlights the work of this prominent figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. The website describes itself as Founded in 1971, the William Morris Society in the United States is a group of scholars and enthusiasts brought …