Quilts by Topic

Over 500 women and children in 15 countries have expressed themselves through embroidered squares and all are profiled in these pages. Visit Vision and History to learn how advocacy quilting began. Click on a title below to bring up profiles of each quilt and the artists who produced the embroidery. Meet the American quilters who assembled the quilts. See how we exhibit the quilts in the US. Contact us to work on a quilt or organize an exhibition!

Women and Girls

SOS Femmes En Danger (SOSFED) - DR Congo

Ahadi Quilts (DRC)

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Alafia Mali Quilts (Mali)

 

Henna Pride Quilts (India)

The Kakenya Center for Excellence (KCE) - Kenya

Maasai Girls Quilts (Kenya)

Women's Reproductive Rights Program (WRRP) - Nepal

Mahilako Swastha Quilts (Nepal)

Middle Eastern Refugee Quilts

Ain Leuh Weaver’s Cooperative - Morocco

Moroccan Amazigh Quilts

Bosnian Family (BOSFAM) - Bosnia

Srebrenica Memorial Quilts

 

 

 

 

Bardiya Memorial Quilts

   
   

Children

Backward Society Education (BASE) - Nepal

Love Blankets (Nepal)

   

 

Disability

Gulu Disabled Persons Union (GDPU) - Uganda                                   

Gulu Disability Quilt (Uganda)

Association for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (AEPD) -Vietnam                                   

Vietnam Disability Quilt

 

Conflict

 
   

Minorities & Indigenous

Roma Community - Czech Republic                                   

Czech Roma Quilt

Roma Women's Group - France                                    

Dosta! Roma Quilt (France)

Network of Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian Women’s Organizations of Kosovo (PROGRAEK) - Kosovo                                   

Gracanica Roma Quilt (Kosovo)

Inicitiva 6 - Kosovo

Prizren Roma Quilt (Kosovo)

Roma Women's Group - Lithuania

Romano Trajo Quilt (Lithuania)

 

Environment

Chintan Environmental Action and Research Group (CHINTAN) - India

The Wastepickers Quilt (India)

Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM) - Belize

The Rainforest Quilts (Belize)

Bangladesh fish

River Gypsy Quilt (Bangladesh)