Quilts have always been mainly if not only made by women.
Often synonyms of women domestic confinement, it has truly long been misconsidered by women themselves. And not only due to male domination in arts, but also because it is a folk art, it has too long been seen, as a minor art.
But quilting has always given a voice to women.
From the conservative forms expressing puritanism and minimalism, through the bible representations and their wonderful symbolism, to the modernism of black american quilting, it has always been a language.
Quilts are messengers, testimonies of daily life, they are an inventory of hopes and fears, joys and sorrows.They can also be banners for activism and feminism.
Quilting is an expertise transmitted from mothers to daughters and from women to women.
