"It's good to go to a store that specializes in what you're shopping for (especially important for quilting fabrics!)," says Emma Seymour, the associate director at the Textiles, Paper & Apparel Lab.

At the unveiling, Sherald said the dress “resembles the inspired quilt ... remote Black community in Alabama where they compose quilts in geometries that transform clothes and fabric remnants ...

“Her sewing box and she had a trunk where she kept all her fabric, and while everybody was fussing ... This February and March, the Black Heritage Gallery is showcasing black quilting by inviting ...