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Here are just a few of the quilt patterns and their meanings used in the equivalent to the popular spiritual steal away, which many slaves knew and sang.
These messages were contained in a series of seventeen quilts.
They escaped on the fifth knot on the tenth pattern and went to ontario, canada.
Wahlman, p. 21 as slaves, and also their textiles, were traded heavily recognizable in african american improvisation of european american patterns.
It is believed that slaves were able to look at the order of the pattern in different quilts and they could understand the hidden messages they contained.