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The "Quilt Code" Hall of Shame
A continuing cavalcade of retailers who use the "Underground
Railroad Quilt Code" as a marketing tool. Click on the photo to see the entire advertisement.
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a nomination for the Hall of Shame? Click here.
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Trish Chambers, who "prides herself on presenting history in her own unique style," has a special presentation on the "Quilt Code". Call for pricing.
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"It's
all imagination," says Ohio quilt shop owner and "Code"
lecturer Rita Fishel, but "I want everybody to believe there were
signal quilts"- and, presumably, to buy her "Code" quilt kits
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of the 19 blocks is $10, plus another $30 for the finishing kit. |
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| pinpeddlers.com sells "Quilt Code" enamel pins. Collect them all! |
Quilt instructor Eleanor Burns's "Quilt Code" pattern book and how-to video |
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| For Black History Month, school supplier reallygoodstuff.com offers a "Quilt Code" kit |
itsablackthang.com, the Hall of Shame's only known African-American member, offers an UGRR tote for $29.95. Two photos of Tubman: one half-decapitates her, the other is missing her head entirely.
But a Code quilt has a front row seat. |
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Ebay seller jimmpak
used fabric glue to "restore" this "Underground Railroad quilt" |
Ebay seller sabinemoon apparently has an unlimited supply of "African American" quilts. |
Ebay seller 92hackney's "Tubman" doll wears an "authentic" African fabric that didn't exist until the 1850s. |
