EditorialThe textile artist Bisa Butler pins one of her patterns in her studio in Jersey City, N.J., April 18, 2023. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times)
EditorialThe designer Ron Norsworthy at his home and studio in Roxbury, Conn., with one of the matchbook “quilts” memorializing Black people killed by law enforcement and “Blackity” wallpaper, Aug. 24, 2021. (Kendall Bessent/The New York Times)
EditorialA hand-stitched quilt on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art's exhibit "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" in New York, Jan. 25, 2003. (Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times)
EditorialThe quilt friends sewed to honor the artist David Wojnarowicz, who died in the AIDS epidemic, in New York, Aug. 7, 2020. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)