The Stories Behind The Quilts
Hidden Away

 

This wonderfully graphic quilt was made in the early 1900s by a woman of German-Russian descent. The swastika was a good luck symbol commonly used from the 1700s. At the start of World War II, the owner of this quilt hid it away under a mattress so that her family would not be thought to be Nazi sympathisers. The quilt remained hidden until it was brought to the North Dakota Quilt Project Discovery Day.
   
   

 

 

 

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