LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A new exhibition at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln will explore the role quilts had throughout U.S. history during wartime.
“Covering the War: American Quilts in Times of Conflict” opens at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Quilt House on March 6 and will be on display through Nov. 21.
The exhibition features 10 quilts spanning 150 years of history. The exhibition also will feature two recent acquisitions at the quilt center. The first is an 1898 album quilt from the Spanish-American War. The second quilt was made circa 1918, the time of World War I.