Research Catalog

Title

Quilts, coverlets, and counterpanes : bedcoverings from the MESDA and Old Salem collections / Paula W. Locklair.

Author

Locklair, Paula W., 1950-

Publication

Winston-Salem, NC : Old Salem, c1997.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.
• Old Salem, Inc.

Description

71 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Summary

"This sampling of bedcoverings from the Old Salem and Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) collections offers a look at thirty-nine American quilts, coverlets, and counterpanes, most made and used in the South. The introduction by Paula W. Locklair, director of collections and curator for Old Salem and MESDA, explores early documentation for bedcoverings and the women who made them, using evidence from newspapers, wills and inventories, and family histories. The richness and variety of these bedcoverings offer new insight into the lives, talents, and imaginations of American women in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Quilts, coverlets, and counterpanes

Subject

• Coverlets > Southern States > History > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Coverlets > Southern States > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Coverlets > Winston-Salem > Exhibitions
• Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts > Exhibitions
• Old Salem, Inc. > Exhibitions
• Quilts > Southern States > History > 18th century > Exhibitions
• Quilts > Southern States > History > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Quilts > Winston-Salem > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.
• History.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held from Sept. 20, 1997 to Jan. 11, 1998 in the Frank L. Horton Museum Center at Old Salem, Winston-Salem, N.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 71).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1879704048 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97018405^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library