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Growing up in a large family, Mozell
Benson learned from her mother how to make quilt tops
from flour sacks and clothing remnants. Today, her work
exemplifies how Afro-American quilting blends two traditions
— the African and the Euro-American — to
make a third. Characterized by strips, bright colors,
large designs and asymmetry and often made in an improvisational
spirit, this style of quilting is sometimes compared
to jazz music. |
