Some 700 blankets fill a timber-frame barn attached to her 18th-century York farmhouse.

The wall, which runs through a narrow mountain pass in the eastern province of Shandong, was first constructed in around 800 B.C. At that time, it was about 33 feet (10 meters) wide. But it was ...

A quilt is a multilayered thing, both physically and, in many cases, metaphorically. In the right hands, it can be a functional, warm blanket, a work of art, and a way of stitching together memories ...