Research Catalog

Title

Fabric of a nation : American quilt stories / Pamela A. Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope, Lauren D. Whitley ; with a preface by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Author

Parmal, Pamela A.

Publication

• Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Swope, Jennifer
• Whitley, Lauren D.
• Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938-
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.

Description

239 pages : color illustrations; 28 x 26 cm

Summary

A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Spanning more than 400 years, the 58 works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion. Exhibition: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (09.05.2021 - 06.02.2022).

Subject

• Quilts > United States > History > Exhibitions
• Quilts
• United States

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Director's foreword -- Preface / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich -- The story of American quilts -- Ships and hands -- Canals and cotton gins -- Railroads and power looms -- Streetcars and sewing machines -- Automobiles and advertising -- Rockets and gallery walls.

Call Number

JQF 21-1248

ISBN

• 0878468765
• 9780878468768

OCLC

1144474517

Author

Parmal, Pamela A., author.

Title

Fabric of a nation : American quilt stories / Pamela A. Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope, Lauren D. Whitley ; with a preface by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Publisher

Boston : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Swope, Jennifer, author.

Whitley, Lauren D., author.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, 1938- writer of preface.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-1248