Foxfire Exhibits

Within the Foxfire textile collection, there are nearly 20 quilts ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The variation in time, design, and materials  illustrates the different uses and techniques for quilts. From Aunt Arie Carpenter’s utilitarian patchwork quilt, made quickly for warmth, to the colorful friendship quilt, made for a couple in 1898, to the Foxfire Anniversary quilts, which capture our history and community, each quilt tells its own story unique to Southern Appalachia.