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On the cutting edge : textile collectors, collections, and traditions

Title
On the cutting edge : textile collectors, collections, and traditions / Jeannette Lasansky, with Celia Oliver [and others].
Publication
Lewisburg, Pa. : Oral Traditions Project, [1994], ©1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Lasansky, Jeannette.
  • Oliver, Celia Y.
  • Oral Traditions Project (Union County Historical Society)
Description
119 pages : illustrations; 31 cm
Subject
Quilts > United States > History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Electra Havemeyer Webb and Shelburne's Quilt Collection / Celia Oliver -- The Evolution of the Quilt Collection at the DAR Museum / Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn -- Quilted Ballots: Political and Campaign Textiles / Julie Powell -- Rags Into Riches: The Collecting of Textiles and Needlework in Southeastern Pennsylvania / Richard Machmer and Rosemarie Machmer -- All In and All Done? The Pennsylvania Vendue / Alan G. Keyser -- Fabric and the Amish Quilt: Tradition, Sources and Change / Eve Wheatcroft Granick -- Quiltmaking on Chesapeake Plantations / Gloria Seaman Allen -- Characteristics of Signed New Jersey Quilts / Rita Erickson and Barbara Schaffer -- Quilt Design Explosion of the Great Depression / Merikay Waldvogel -- Feed, Flour, Tobacco and Other Sacks: Their Use in the 20th Century / Pat Nickols -- The Hispanic Tradition of Quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico / Dorothy R. Zopf.
  • Myth and Reality in Craft Tradition: Were Blacksmiths Really Muscle-bound? Were Basketmakers Gypsies? Were Thirteen Quilts in the Dowry Chest? / Jeannette Lasansky.
ISBN
0917127080 :
LCCN
93046431
OCLC
  • 29600906
  • ocm29600906
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries