Olivia Joseph

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Ologies with Alie Ward · Culcitology (QUILTS) with Luke Haynes, Olivia Joseph, and Joe Cunningham · 26 Feb 2026 podcast

World's Fair that happened in 1876.

And so there's a lot of patriotic prints that show up in those quilts.

You see a lot of eagles.

I would also say like the shields, liberty cap and bell.

So very patriotic imagery, which I think makes sense if they're celebrating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

So there's things that end up in the quilts that are relevant to the time.

Such as?

Joe explains.

Well, there have been political-minded quilters since almost the beginning.

By the bicentennial, quilts didn't have to look any particular way, and therefore, women could invent patterns.

And they did by the hundreds of thousands.

American women came up with the idea of making blocks.

a block pattern.

So if you make a 12 inch block, you can do that sitting in your lap because women did not have quilt studios to make a whole big, set up a frame for anything besides the time that you really had to have it set up to do the quilting.

So they could make the 50, 60 or 20 or whatever blocks in their lap, right?

And not take up any room in the house.

And so then the quilts became made out of this grid

Of blocks.

Well, when you've invented a block, you get to give it a name, right?

And early when it's Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.

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