Stamp Recognizes Quilters of Isolated Alabama Hamlet ; Designs Handed Down Through Generations
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › August 24, 2006
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WASHINGTON Mary Lee Bendolph was 12 years old when her mother taught her to quilt in the mid-1940s.
Her first piece took an entire year to finish because she kept pricking her fingers and did not have enough materials. But she gradually became proficient, patching together the brightly colored, geometrically patterned tapestries that had become a trademark of the isolated hamlet of Gee's Bend, Ala.See the full content of this document
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Stamp Recognizes Quilters of Isolated Alabama Hamlet ; Designs Handed Down Through Generations
"We just kept on making them because that's the hobby we had, and we nee...
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