quilted

Kings Starter jacket, the ribbed corduroy from the house shoes her dad would buy at the swap meet, a quilted inside that draws from the iconographic element of a Chanel bag.

A large number of items, including Stagecoach-branded “Yellowstone” T-shirts and a heavy quilted Yellowstone coat, didn’t include prices, perhaps because merchandise was moving quickly.

He donned his entire wardrobe, got all his mats together, all the paper he had torn from the novel, whatever milkweed fluff he could find in his storerooms, and half sitting, half reclining against a wall, he quilted himself all around with these paddings and buried his face in Amanda’s scarf.

Most big cities are quilted this way, with working class squares abutting middle- and upper-class areas.

For Ms. Ringgold, as her work and many interviews made plain, art and activism were a seamless, if sometimes quilted, whole.