This is a list of quilters - notable people who are known for their

quilt A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber. Commonly three layers are used with a filler material. These layers traditionally include a woven cloth top, a layer of padding, batting or w ...

s or

quilting Quilting is the term given to the process of joining a minimum of three layers of fabric together either through stitching manually using a needle and thread, or mechanically with a sewing machine or specialised longarm quilting system. ...

. :''This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it.'' __NOTOC__

A

* Nellie Mae Abrams *

Willie Abrams Willie Abrams (1897–1987), also known as Ma Willie, was an American artist. She was a member of the Freedom Quilting Bee, along with her daughter Estelle Witherspoon, and is associated with the Gee's Bend quilters. Some of “Ma” Willie’s qu ...

* Alex Anderson * Anna Maria Horner

B

Cuesta Benberry Cuesta Benberry (September 8, 1923 – August 23, 2007) was an American historian and scholar. Considered to be one of the pioneers of research on quiltmaking in America, she was the pioneer of research on African-American quiltmaking. Her involve ...

* Annie Bendolph * Mary Lee Bendolph *

Agatha Bennett Agatha Bennett (1919–2006) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective, alongside her mother-in-law, Delia Bennett. Her work is included in the collection of the High Museum of Art The High Museum of ...

* Amelia Bennett * Delia Bennett * Linda Diane Bennett * Loretta Pettway Bennett * Mary L. Bennett *

Polly Bennett Polly Mooney Bennett (1922–2003) was an American artist. She is associated with the Gee's Bend quilting collective and was a member of the Freedom Quilting Bee The Freedom Quilting Bee was a quilting cooperative based in Rehobeth, Alabama, that ...

* Janet Catherine Berlo * Jinny Beyer * NedRa Bonds * Georgia Bonesteel * Sandy Bonsib *

Barbara Brackman Barbara Brackman (born July 6, 1945) is a quilter, quilt historian and author. Barbara has written numerous books on quilting during the Civil War A civil war or intrastate war is a war between organized groups within the same state (or ...

* Tina Williams Brewer * Jo Budd * Eleanor Burns *

Bisa Butler Bisa Butler (born Mailissa Yamba Butler in 1973) is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium. Although quilting has long been considered a craft, her interdisciplinary methods -- which crea ...

C

Dorothy Caldwell Dorothy Caldwell (born 1948) is a Canadian fibre artist. Her work consists primarily of abstract textile based wall hangings that utilize techniques such as wax-resistdischarge dyeing stitching, mark-making, and appliqué. Biography Caldwell ...

* Jennifer Chiaverini * Jane Burch Cochran *

Nancy Crow Nancy Morrison Crow (born 1943) is an American art quilter and fiber artist. She is one of the leading figures in the development of the art quilting movement of the 1970s and 1980s, and is also known for her development of certain techniques to a ...

* Michael Cummings (quilter)

D

* Madeline Davis *

Mimi Dietrich Mimi Dietrich is an American quilter, quilting instructor, author of 17 books about quilting and a member of the Quilter's Hall of Fame. A lifelong resident of Maryland, she lives in the Baltimore County community of Catonsville. Her first book, ' ...

* Radka Donnell *

William Rush Dunton William Rush Dunton Jr (24 July 1868 - 23 December 1966) was a founder and early president of the American Occupational Therapy Association. He is also recognized for his collection of, and scholarship about, American quilts. Early life William Ru ...

E

Tracey Emin Tracey Karima Emin, CBE, RA (; born 3 July 1963) is a British artist known for her autobiographical and confessional artwork. Emin produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and ...

F

* Kaffe Fassett

G

* Beth Gutcheon

H

* Misses Jane and Mary Hampson * Karen Hampton * Peggie Hartwell *

Joseph Hedley Joseph Hedley (also known as Joe the Quilter, – 3 January 1826) was a Quilter from Northumberland. During his life he was renowned for his quality of craftsmanship with his work being exported as far as America. He lived his later years on pa ...

* Kyra E. Hicks * Susan Hoffman * Mary Ellen Hopkins

J

* Michael James (quilt artist)

K

* Ai Kijima *

Bettye Kimbrell Bettye Kimbrell (born November 22, 1936) is a master folk artist for quilting, and one of the charter members of the North Jefferson Quilter's Guild in Mount Olive, Alabama. In 1995 Kimbrell won the Alabama Folk Heritage Award, the highest h ...

L

* Sophie Tatum LaCroix * Jean Ray Laury *

John Lefelhocz John Lefelhocz ("lěf-ä-hōlts"; born 1967 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American conceptual artist primarily known for his works in the textile arts, specifically art quilts. He attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio). Since college, he ...

Rosina Lippi Rosina Lippi-Green (née Rosina Lippi; born January 14, 1956) is an American writer. She writes under the names Rosina Lippi-Green (linguistics), Rosina Lippi (literary and contemporary fiction), and Sara Donati (historical fiction). Biography ...

M

* Linda MacDonald *

Gwendolyn Ann Magee Gwendolyn (Gwen) Ann Magee (August 31, 1943 – April 27, 2011) was an African-American fiber artist. Learning to quilt in the middle of her life, Magee quickly became known in the world of fiber art for her abstract and narrative quilts depicting ...

* Carolyn L. Mazloomi * Therese May *

Dindga McCannon Dindga McCannon (born: July 31, 1947) is an African-American artist, fiber artist, muralist, teacher author and illustrator. She co-founded the collective Where We At, Black Women Artists in 1971. Early life and education McCannon was born a ...

* Susan McCord * Wini McQueen

N

* Miriam Nathan-Roberts * Velda Newman

P

* Cecelia Pedescleaux * Louella Pettway * Martha Jane Pettway * Yvonne Porcella *

Harriet Powers Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) was an American folk artist and quilter. Born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia, she married young and had a large family. After the American Civil War and emancipation, she and her hu ...

R

* Sue Reno *

Martha Ann Erskine Ricks Martha Ann Ricks (born Erskine, 1817–1901) was an Americo-Liberian woman who was among the early colonists there. Born into slavery in Tennessee, she was freed by her father George Erskine and emigrated at age 13 with him and her family to Libe ...

* Sonié Joi Thompson-Ruffin

S

* Rebecca Scattergood Savery *

Elizabeth Talford Scott Elizabeth Talford Scott (February 7, 1916 – April 25, 2011) was an American folk artist, known for her quilts. Early life Elizabeth Caldwell was born near Chester, South Carolina, where her family lived as sharecroppers on the Blackstock Plantat ...

Joyce J. Scott Joyce J. Scott (born 1948) is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator. Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, Scott is best ...

* Grace Snyder

T

* Sarah Mary Taylor *

Rosie Lee Tompkins Rosie Lee Tompkins (1936–2006) is the art pseudonym of Effie Mae Martin Howard, a widely-acclaimed African-American quiltmaker and fiber artist of Richmond, California. ''The New York Times'' called her "one of the great American artists," and ...

* Holice Turnbow *

Patricia Turner Patricia A. Turner, Ph.D, is a folklorist who documents and analyzes the stories that define the African American experience. A professor in World Arts and Cultures/Dance and African American Studies at UCLA, Turner is the author of five books ...

* Linda V. Taylor

W

* Marilyn I. Walker * Pecolia Warner * Marie Webster * Katherine Westphal *

Margaret Wood (fashion designer) Margaret Wood (born 1950) is a Navajo-Seminole fiber artist, fashion designer, and quilt maker. Though she began her career as a teacher and librarian, Wood switched to fiber arts to allow her to express her creativity. She published ''Native Ame ...

U

* Molly Upton

V

* Anna Von Mertens

References

{{Layered textiles Quilters