Research Catalog

Title

A flowering of quilts / edited by Patricia Cox Crews.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors

• Crews, Patricia Cox.
• University of Nebraska State Museum.

Description

xi, 147 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 27 cm.

Summary

• "The beautiful floral applique quilts of the nineteenth century have long been admired and appreciated. This book showcases fifty-three striking examples of these quilts, taken from the Ardis and Robert James Collection of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska. The quilts comprise a range of style, including cut-out chintz applique quilts, album-style quilts, a number of red-and-green floral applique quilts, as well as a limited number of pieced quilts and crazy quilts.
• Included with each botanically inspired quilt is a detailed, informative description of its applique, piecing, and quilting techniques as well as enlightening background information concerning the historical, horticultural, and botanical influences on the quilt's design and execution.
• Helpful essays at the beginning of the book explore nineteenth-century women's sustained interest in botany and examine the fascinating parallels between the designs of flower gardens and those of quilts during that era."--Jacket.

Subject

• Ardis and Robert James Collection > Exhibitions
• University of Nebraska>Lincoln. International Quilt Study Center > Exhibitions
• 1800 - 1899
• Quilts > United States > Themes, motives > 19th century > Exhibitions
• Botany in art > Exhibitions
• Quilts > Private collections > Lincoln > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• History

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition of 53 quilts from the International Quilt Study Center displayed over a two-year period at the University of Nebraska State Museum.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-142) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Patricia Cox Crews -- Women and Plants in Nineteenth-Century America / Margaret R. Bolick -- Blessed Be God for Flowers: Nineteenth-Century Quilt Design / Susan Curtis -- Fanciful Flowers: Botany and the American Quilt / Carolyn Ducey.

ISBN

0803215134 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^00055957^

OCLC

44468772

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library