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This friendship quilt typifies Victorian-era crazy quilts whose fine fabrics exhibit rich arrays of colors and embroidered embellishments, often with floral motifs. Blooming with daisies and raspberries… Estas mangas con volantes brillan y se menean en los brazos de un bailarín de mambo. Compuestas por siete franjas de tela, las mangas repiten un patrón en negro, lamé dorado y rojo, con negro en los extremos… Bordered in brown, thirty-six blocks compose this nineteenth-century quilt. Each block is made of nine silk squares, mainly in hues of blue, brown, green, grey, and red. Pieced together from remnants… Cuando Casilda Luna se mudó de la República Dominicana a Washington, D.C., en 1962, trajo consigo este crucifijo de metal. Conocida cariñosamente como "Abuelita" por la comunidad latina del distrito,… Buckner continued to use skills honed at M Street throughout his life as an artist and educator. After graduating, he attended Minor Normal School, which trained teachers for the city’s Black public schools,… In a study of symmetry, this purse presents sleek lines and geometric shapes on a canvas of metal. The black, white, and grey purse’s bag is made from metal mesh painted with large inverted chevrons and… William N. Buckner, Jr. (1888-1984) made this formally dressed marionette using woodworking skills honed at M Street High School, a preeminent school for African Americans in Washington, DC’s segregated… This drum shares its name with a musical genre, dance, and poetry; all are known as bomba, which means drum. The handmade drum voices the rhythms of afrochoteños, or Ecuadoreans of African descent living… Muchos washingtonianos bailaron al ritmo de esta conga haitiana. La cabeza del tambor, formada por un parche de cuero tensado, está sujeta con cuerdas enrolladas alrededor de unas clavijas que atraviesan… Norbert Rillieux (1806-1894) sent this scale model of the Multiple Effect Vacuum Evaporator to the US Patent Office when he applied for, and received, his first patent in 1843. Reillieux’s invention would… This tongue plane can cut interlocking wood joints, also known as tongue and groove, for making flooring and furniture. In the eighteenth century, skilled artisans crafted homes and furnishings using… Brightly colored African batik and printed fabrics are set within a matrix of black cloth, rendering vividly the effect of a stained-glass window. Viola Canady, a gifted quilter, often applied her skill… A profusion of flowers adorns this wide-brimmed hat worn by journalist Ethel L. Payne (1911-1991). A photo from the early 1960s shows Payne, whose love of hats bloomed in early adulthood, wearing this… The embroidered design on this linen towel reserves it for kitchen décor rather than for drying dishes. Stitched in cotton thread on a white towel is a woman in a red apron ironing, the housekeeping task…
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The embroidered design on this linen towel reserves it for kitchen décor rather than for drying dishes. Stitched in cotton thread on a white towel is a woman biking to the “Super Market” to shop for groceries.… The embroidered design on this linen towel reserves it for kitchen décor rather than for drying dishes. Stitched in cotton thread on a white towel is a woman wearing a blue-and-white striped apron over… The embroidered design on this linen towel reserves it for kitchen décor rather than for drying dishes. Stitched in cotton thread on a white towel is a woman rolling out dough on a table. Behind her,… The embroidered design on this linen towel reserves it for kitchen décor rather than for drying dishes. Stitched in cotton thread on a white towel is a woman sitting in bed wearing a blue gingham robe.… This partially finished tablecloth reprises housekeeping activities from a coordinating days-of the-week towel set. Ironing and baking appear in colorful cross stitch, while stamped imprints hint at other… The homemaker on the pocket of this white apron also stars in a coordinating days-of-the-week tablecloth and towel set (2008.0002.0006a-f). She wears the same yellow dress and red gingham apron on Tuesday’s… In the mid-twentieth century, handmade goods began taking on new significance amidst an increasingly industrialized and consumer-oriented society. This cotton pillowcase features two kinds of needlework… In the mid-twentieth century, smaller, single-family homes and new appliances eased the burden of housework, offering some women more time for creative endeavors. Middle-class women of all races took… This overshot coverlet is woven in a variation on a pattern known as Tennessee Trouble. The bedcovering’s warp is linen, while its green and red weft is wool. A grid of squares in six horizontal and six… This Olivetti Studio 46 Typewriter belonged to Octavia E. Butler (1947-2006), who wrote science fiction when few black writers did. Butler began writing at age 10 and eventually used a computer to compose,… As a writer strikes keys on a typewriter, an inked, nylon ribbon turns, moving from a full spindle onto an empty one. When the ribbon reaches its end, the typewriter must be opened, and the ribbon replaced.… Reel-to-reel audio tape recording used two magnetic tape reels, one to hold the virgin, unrecorded tape and one to receive the recorded tape. The supply reel, also known as the feed reel, was placed in… Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner, a linguist, bought this hand-cranked phonograph and a set of phonograph records and illustrated textbooks to learn the Portuguese language before traveling to Brazil in 1940-41.… The Cuíca is a friction drum of African origin played in the batucada (an ensemble of instruments used for the samba) during the Brazilian carnival. It is a membranophone, which is an instrument that… The Molo is a three-stringed lute (a lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body). The Molo is made… The Talking Drum is an hourglass-shaped pressure drum so-named because it can imitate spoken language's intonations and rhythms. At either end of the drum’s body, the drum's heads are made of animal hide,… Dr. Lorenzo Dow Turner used this recorder for his research on languages in Africa in 1951. The Webster Chicago Electronic Memory Wire Recorder appeared in the late 1940s and significantly improved on… Frame: 10 1/8 × 12 1/16 × 1 in. (25.7 × 30.7 × 2.5 cm) Frame: 10 1/16 × 12 1/16 × 13/16 in. (25.5 × 30.7 × 2 cm) Here, artist Ira Blount showcases his origami and calligraphy skills, as well as his sense of humor. Text on the left reads “In case you ever lose your shirt…” inscribed in green ink. On the right, Blount… 9 3/16 × 2 7/16 × 5/16 in. (23.3 × 6.2 × 0.8 cm) Frame: 14 3/16 × 11 1/8 × 9/16 in. (36 × 28.3 × 1.5 cm) Two black arrows outlined in blue, red, yellow, and green at either end of this beaded strap point toward a central diamond design. A blue line splits the diamond into two triangles, while blue, red,… A black symbol enclosed in a rectangular black border is the central focus of this orange beadwork piece. A single blue seed bead is hidden in the top right of the black border. Viewers are encouraged… Uniformity, symmetry, and precision are the defining characteristics of this beaded strap. In the center of the piece, a small green diamond is surrounded by yellow, orange, white, and black borders.… Local artist Ira Blount designed this beadwork strap in a repeating pattern of rectangles, geometric shapes, and stripes in alternating red and green seed beads. When viewed from a distance, the central… A stepped diamond is the central focus of this beaded strap by artist Ira Blount (1918-2020). Glass beads in white, green, blue, yellow, red, and orange create the short strap’s intricate design. Its… 16 7/8 × 2 1/2 × 5/16 in. (42.8 × 6.4 × 0.8 cm) Artist Ira Blount creates a repeating pattern out of seed beads in this flat blue ladder necklace. White and light blue Greek key designs alternate with a white triangle and diamond pattern set against… 18 3/4 × 2 1/8 × 3/16 in. (47.7 × 5.4 × 0.5 cm) 10 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 9/16 in. (26.7 × 39.4 × 1.4 cm) A stylized bird perches on a branch in this tin punch crated by Ira Blount (1918-2020). Its head is turned toward its wing, recalling the "Distelfink,” or goldfinch, of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art. Flowers… 16 1/4 × 11 × 1 1/2 in. (41.2 × 28 × 3.8 cm) 11 × 14 1/8 × 9/16 in. (28 × 35.8 × 1.4 cm) Pink orchids bloom in a blue pot on this cross-stitch bordered in brown. Invoking the conventions of still-life paintings, a single flower has fallen off the plant in a memento mori. Between the detached…
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