Bendolph's quilts were made exclusively of utilitarian, recycled materials, such as old clothes and empty sacks. Seltzer recalls, When I was growing up, Mama made quilts to keep us warm. The ladies then piece their quilts at home and go to each other house to help quilt. At the start all they was making them out was old clothes, pants, fertilizer sacks, dress tails, and meal and flour sacks, too. That's it. They had to beat the cotton to pad it out to put it in the quilt. Their husband or friend or neighbor bring cotton from the gin for the ladies to quilt with. Later on, coming down through the years, there was places they'd go and get scraps from factories that was giving it to them, but they have to hire somebody to go pick up the scraps. That's when the quilts started becoming more up-to-date.Most Gee's Bend quilts were made from recycled materials until the
Freedom Quilting Bee brought more resources to the community. ==References==