January 30 – February 3, 2000
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Primary topics of this QHL Digest:
- Underground Railroad Narratives as Sources — Discussion continues on whether an 1872 collection of formerly enslaved people’s first-hand accounts, and its later reprints, hold up as a primary source for quilt-related oral history. (see the article on Underground Railroad quilts)
- Documenting an Elderly Relative’s Quilt Memories — A member asks how to accurately record her aunt’s quilt history, prompting tips on tape-recording interviews, checking dates against known events, and whether to “clean up” a transcript.
- Cocheco Mill Fabric and Early Quilt Backings — Members identify a fabric as coming from the Cocheco textile mill in Dover, NH, and separately discuss what fabrics were typically used to back quilts in the early 1800s-1830s.
- Appraising a Crazy Quilt Seen on a TV Roadshow — A member asks for value guidance after an embellished, well-documented Crazy quilt was appraised on a PBS Antiques Roadshow segment for $2,000-$3,000. (see the article on Victorian crazy quilts)
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 11:51:42 -0500 | From: “Nancy Roberts” <robertsn@>
Reading over the posts suggesting books for researching the Victorian reminded me of a series of books titled “This Fabulous Century” from Time-Life that may be helpful in this type of research. Each book contains photos and text detailing families, lifestyles, costume, home decor, and other aspects of the culture for one decade. The books cover life in the 20th century, beginning with 1900-1910, so they may not be helpful to the person looking for the 1890’s. However, they may be useful when researching time periods from 1900 until ??-whenever they stopped publishing them (maybe the ’60s or ’70s). I believe the books are out of print now, but local libraries may have them. Anyone else seen them? I recall that they are fun to pore over and the photos are fascinating.
For the Victorian period, a net search or search of a book site such as Amazon.com for “the gilded age” may also result in some useful titles.
There are even fashion paper dolls that represent costume of the time. On another topic, I’d like to offer a vote of confidence for members of this list. I enjoy looking over all of the posts. Don’t hold back from adding your comments and don’t apologize for offering your thoughts on topics, even if they have already received many posts. I believe that a variety of posts makes for interesting discussion and prompts me to think about things from different perspectives. If a particular topic doesn’t interest me, I can scroll by it quickly just as I might scan a newspaper. Lots of posts = lots of food for thought. I can decide which ones are beneficial to me or which ones I’m passionate about, but not if they don’t get sent. Nancy
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:21:22 +0200 | From: Ady Hirsch <adamroni@>
Hi, everyone
Thi refers to a question raised some time ago – January 5th, to be precise. Jean mentioned a quilt she’d seen, made of men’s suiting fabrics with a star in the middle. I happened to have come accross a picture of the quilt – it’s in Jacqueline Marx Atkins’ “Shared Threads”, pl. 110. it was brought to the US by the American officer who administered the dachau concentration camp after its liberation, and besides the star (which is the Jewish star of David, or the infamous yellow star Jews were made to wear) it has the name Dachau and the date — 1945. It is thought the quilt may have been made for the American officer, probably by former inmates of the camp. the fabrics are probably scraps left after the clothes stored by the Nazis were recut and used to outfit liberated prisoners.
Hope you have the book, Jean – the quilt gave me the shivers’ it’s so sombre.
Ady
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 15:24:22 -0500 | From: “John Cawley” <cawley@>
I am familiar with William Still’s The Underground Railroad A Record. Still was an African American who lived in Philadelphia; so it would seem that if he had “an agenda” it would certainly not have been to serve as an apologist for the master class. He was neither Parson Weems nor a WPA interviewer. He gathered the stoies of blacks who had escaped from slavery; his work was published in 1872. I came upon this book in the rare book collection of the Maryland Room of the Talbot Co. Library. It does not circulate so I have been dipping into it whenever I have time. I have read many of the accounts which strike me as straight forward descriptions of events narrated by the participants; IMHO this qualifies as a primary source. I have found no mention of quilts in any context. Cinda on the Eastern Shore
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:03 EST | From: Kathi2174@
Hello QHL,
I found a number of records in the Library of Congress online catalog for William Still’s writings. His book “The Underground Railroad A Record” was reprinted in 1968 by Arno Press of New York. I have not located that book (yet).
I would very much like to read it as I know very little about the UGR. I was hoping to learn when I read Dobard’s book and was sadly disappointed.
Kathi in Calf.
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:35:36 -0200 | From: susan silva <woody@>
Greetings qhl folks.
I plan on visiting the Seattle area this month and then Las Vegas in March. I’d like to gather any feedback about places to see antique quilts. The LaConner museum north of Seattle is great but I’m wondering if I’m missing any other museums. The same goes for Las Vegas so I’d appreciate any tips on cool places to visit. thanks!
Susan in snowy Spokane Washington
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 22:33:39 -1000 | From: “Laurie Woodard” <lwoodard@>
Nancy Roberts recommended a
> series of books titled “This Fabulous Century” from Time-Life that may
be
> helpful in this type of research. . . The books cover life in the 20th century, beginning with 1900-1910, so they may not be helpful to the
person
> looking for the 1890’s.
Actually, there also is a volume, “America 1870-1900, copyright 1970. I found my copy by chance at the annual public library book sale. It had been withdrawn from circulation <). There’s an interior photo on pp. 96-97 of a group of women quilting a double Irish chain (huge setting squares on point w/ Irish chain sashing?) The frame is suspended from the ceiling. The photo caption says “Dakota farm women take a rare break from their chores to get together in a neighbor’s house and exchange gossip at a quilting bee.”
Don’t know if that is an editorial comment or an accurate citation.
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Laurie Woodard
Researcher
Hawaiian Quilt Research Project http://openstudio.hawaii.edu/hqrp/default.html
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 06:57:25 -0500 | From: “Judy Kelius (judysue)” <judy@>
Anyone looking for an out-of-print book should try either bibliofind.com or bookfinder.com – I just looked on bibliofind and there are two copies of the original edition of the Still book, for $600 and $325, but none of the reprint. Bookfinder also refers you to BN and Amazon, both of which can order the reprint for $73.95 each. Also check out eBay – it is amazing what you can find there (but you might pay more than going through a direct bookseller – do your research before bidding).
At 1200 AM 01/31/2000 -0500, Kathi2174@ wrote
>Hello QHL,
>I found a number of records in the Library of Congress online catalog for William Still’s writings. His book “The Underground Railroad A Record”
was
>reprinted in 1968 by Arno Press of New York. I have not located that book (yet).
>I would very much like to read it as I know very little about the UGR. I was hoping to learn when I read Dobard’s book and was sadly
disappointed.
>Kathi in Calf.
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 16:44:57 -0500 | From: “J. G. Row” <Judygrow@>
I remember someone asking about Egyptian applique a while back. The item below is listed as applique from the 1920 King Tut exhibits. It seems to be in wonderful condition — lots of detail and the colors are bright. The auction might be ended by the time you receive this message if you are on digest.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item246814016 Judy in Ringoes, NJ judygrow@
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 15:03:09 -0500 | From: “Joanna E. Evans” <jevans@> (by way of List Mom
List Mom
<qrs@>)
Phyllis,
I’ve been away at a quilt retreat, so I just read the QHL digests for the past few days. I am also interested in the historical context of the 1890s. I am researching quilts from the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 (Chicago). I’ve found The Fair Women (sorry it’s out in the garage and I don’t remember the authors, but it is in print) to be a very helpful book.
Lots of quotes from the time.
Would you please let me know what suggestions you got that weren’t posted on QHL. The posted ones were great.
I would really appreciate it. Thanks.
Joanna
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 10:58:08 +1100 | From: nomad1@
Dear QHL ers,
Thank you for all your input and sharing on various topics. Talking about accurate documentation and factual evidence etc leads me to ask some advice in regards to recording the life and times of my lovely Great, great Aunt. Her name is Amybelle Susan and she is 98 years young, however she tells all she is 70 years young! She is certainly younger than many teenagers I have met!!
I savour listening to her and have decided to record her stories etc, as I do not trust myself to remember everything.
So will my future generations think this was all make believe? How do I go about accurately documenting her past? She lived in the time of servants and tea parties and high teas etc. She was a Nursing Sister of old, a tennis player etc etc. Something interesting quilt wise she divulged was that the servants made patchwork and quilted , however the ladies never did! The servants were given old clothing and drapery etc to cut up for their patchwork. She was horrified when I asked if anyone we knew, had any examples!! Thank you so much for all your wonderful sharing and I look forward to some insights into accurate documenting that will be cherished by future generations.
Yours in quilting,
Hiranya Loder from Oz >
p.s Newbie, any chance of you posting a list of your best quilt books?
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:42:37 EST | From: Qltldy10@
Thanks to those of you who responded. I also went off list and asked around. Remember the one line is ….weaving a burdy coverlid… Another choice of meaning for ‘burdy’ other than the dictionary kinda defintions offered here is that ‘burdy’ is a spelling of birdy, which would then refer to a pattern of repeating diamonds, or birds eyes. The pattern of repeating diamonds was very popular and easy to weave, relatively speaking. Someone here thought the price of the weaving as recorded was/is a little high for the time, although it came to me with a smile as I thought about it later, it may be that Henry Hays, the debtor, was able to choose the price. As my Mom recalls taking the paper from the Hays house, that fits. If a debtor could raise the price of a bartered good to get over the debt quicker,
<g>, than maybe he would.
Of course, everyone I emailed wanted me to research, which in all honesty
I probably won’t do any time soon….
Thanks for helping me with this one–
Beth in Maine
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 06:02:21 -0600 | From: lessmann@ (Ellen Lessmann)
The Roadshow showing in this area (Iowa PBS) this week is in Birmingham, and a wonderful family Crazy with loads of embellishment (mostly embroidery) was shown. The documentation was there, it was signed with initials of maker and dates. It was valued by a woman from Texas, (I dont remember her name) at $2000-$3000. As I am a learner on this list, I would appreciate comments from experts as to the value of the quilt. It certainly looked like more quilt than that to me. Thank you all, Ellen
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 10:51:47 -0500 | From: Newbie Richardson <pastcrafts@>
Hiranya,
In our technology rich era, I would think that an old fashioned tape recording of your grand aunt would be a very acceptible way of “proving” your unbiased transcription of her memories.
She is right about the fact that “ladies” did not quilt. She is recalling the last quarter of the 19th c. and first quarter of the 20th. The last quarter is drawn from her mom’s institutional memory, the first quarter from her own. Quilting was no longer a status fad among the WASP elite. (Crazy work is not quilting in that context, it is embroidery and the best examples are usually from the early 80’s I think) When looked at from a class/material culture point of view, then “ladies” did fine embroidery (frequently white work for children’s dresses and for the church), needlepoint (pettipoint), and fine beading. I have restored a lot of beautifully needlepointed silk cushions and beaded evening bags from this period as well as catalogued the church embroidery for the Washington National Cathedral. There was a resurgence of interest in Church emboidery in England and the East Caost of the US at that time.
You asked for my “best” quilt books. Remember, I am not, like many on this list, a quilt historian. You all have far more depth than I do. I came to quilting because it is the cross roads of the female domestic culture of the 19th century. My knowledge is broad, but not deep. Thus I like Safford and Bishop’s America’s Quilts and Coverlets, Brackman’s Clues in the Calico, Elly Sienkiewicz’s Spoken without a Word (the iconography of the symbols in the applique quilts of the mid 19th century), Marykays’ Soft Covers for Hard Times, Ferraro’s Hearts and Hands, and many of the state documentation books for their revelations of migrtations and the spread of cultural info.
For anyone looking for documentary fabrics, the National Trust for Historic Preservation publishes Fabrics for Historic Buildings by jane Nylander. It is a compilation of fabrics which have been reproduced for the restoration of historic properites. These are mostly furnishing fabrics of course, but there are a lot of Chintz documents. They are done by houses such as Greff (no longer in business, alas)Brunschuig et fils, Scalamandre, etc. They are alsmost always accurate both in design and color ways as they were taken from museum documents for use in the restoration of historic buildings and then made available to the public. Of course they are expensive and only available through decorators – but if you are building a reference library, it has to be cheaper than buying the real thing!
Best
Newbie in Alexandria with 3″ of solid ice on the streets! I think that the city forgot to order chemicals for the roads!
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 20:33:56 -0600 | From: Jocelyn <Jocelynm@>
> So will my future generations think this was all make believe? How do I go about accurately documenting her past?
Hiranya,
Tape the stories, and then have them transcribed. Have your aunt read them and make corrections. When SHE is satisfied that the stories are the way she wants them, then you have a solidly accurate primary source. FWIW, the jury is still out as to whether it’s important to include the ‘uhs’ and ‘ers’ and the grammatical mistakes a person makes. Since your aunt will probably be mortified to obtain evidence that she doesn’t speak as fluently as she probably imagines she does (darned few of us do!) you might want to clean up the transcript.
If she can’t remember exact dates that things happened, ask for current events. For example, she might not remember the year, but if you know that it was the year a certain person was born, you can trace the date via birth records, or if it was the year of the big flood, you can get that from history books. Be sure and check these back with her, because she might say,
‘Well, no, it couldn’t’ve been 1932, so I guess it was James, not Mary, who was the baby that year.’ There’s an account in my family where my mother was always told that the older child was 8 years old when it happened, but when the family checked birth records, there was not a younger sibling born that year. So the family story is off somewhat, although we don’t know by how much.
Ask for pictures- go through an album and ask her to tell about every picture. Or name family members, or places, or events, and ask her about her memories of them.
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 14:28:39 +1100 | From: nomad1@
Dear Newbie, Laura and Jocelyn,
Thanks so much for your prompt reply to my post. Thank you all so much for the great ideas. I had planned to use a tape recorder but never thought of actually getting my Aunt to read the transcripts. Jocelyn, your idea of talking about current events was great, as that could lead to more info too.
Newbie, I too came to quilting as a result of studying women in early times and am enjoying learning quilting backwards you could say! I picked up a needle in 1996 and am having a ball! What a pity I wasted so much time (.
I found it very interesting how you discussed about “…quilting no longer being a status fad amongst the WASP elite, in the last quarter of the 19th c. and first quarter of the 20th. It makes perfect sense, however, the interesting thing here is that my Great Great Aunt Amybelle Susan is Singhalese and resided in Ceylon as it used to be called, before migrating to Australia when Socialism came to the country. To this day many of the ” old ” families are very English in outlook etc and at times I tease them that they are more ” English, than the English!! ” ) For example, my Granny was named Irene Mildred and my Dad is Frederick Wilfred!
I found it interesting that quilting would even be considered in a hot country, though there are chilly highlands. I guess Missionaries etc would have taken ” Patchwork” to Sri Lanka and taught the skills to the Singhalese. However, my Aunt was most definite that only servants would do patchwork! I feel its so sad, as there are so many old English things in SL, however I have never ever heard of any quilt relics.She did mention that what ladies did do was fine embroidery , pettipoint and fine beading! So you were spot on there mate! I have an old photo of my family in Victorian dress with a beautiful cushion in the picture, looks like pettipoint/beading. Wish I was guardian of that now!
Newbie,thank you so much for listing your ” best books”. I wish there was a listing of all the State Studies. Is there such a list?
Many thanks again for taking the time and effort to answer my question. What a fabulous quilt list we belong to, there is a real communion of spirit methinks! )
Best wishes,
Hiranya from OZ where Summer is flirting with us! >
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 20:02:57 -0800 | From: Fiona Galvin <fiona101@>
Dear Hiryana,
Jocelyn and Newbie have told you most of what you need to know, but I would add another technique which might help jog your mother’s memory and which also might help future historians to use the transcript. Your mother’s memories are not objective. That is, she remembers certain things and not others, and has reasons to remember things the way she does. That’s not a comment on the value of her story, it’s a fact about memory. Memory and history are not the same thing, and “accuracy” in oral history is a relative term.
So with that in mind, you might check into some events which occured in your mother’s lifetime, and ask her about them. While her personal history might not include them, she may remember something when you mention it. Also, be sure to ask her a lot of “why” questions, because those are the parts of anyone’s story which are the most interesting and the hardest to get to. Not having children, for example, is a different thing if you *cannot* or if you *choose* not to, especially in the 20’s-40’s. Obviously, your mother had children, but you see the point the oral history may have value for you for one reason, but to an historian fifty years from now, the questions you ask about what your mother thought about the war, about feminism, about McCarthy, Russia, etc. might be very helpful.
Oral histories are like autobiographies. So, on the one hand, if you let her tell the story exactly the way she wants to, you can then approach it by asking questions like “why would she remember X but not Y?” “why does she feel that X was a central moment in her life? Do other women of this period also value X or do they think of Y as the most important event of their lifetime?” On the other hand, you can approach her as a source to plumb, and can try to see what she thinks/thought about anything you can think of. It just depends on what you think and what you want from the history.
Anyway, sounds like you are going to have lots of fun. Transcription takes forever, so I hope you type well!
Fiona
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 14:23:26 EST | From: ThreadDog@
Barbara
A couple of years ago my spouse brought home a quilt he purchased from a dealer in the Lexington, KY area. With it came a sheet of paper dated 1943 describing the quilt as having been made by two sisters. “Slaves raised the cotton, and wove the cloth, and then Great [penciled in red) Grandmother and her sister made, quilted and drew the pattern themselves and embroidered it. It is about one hundred and twenty (fifty penciled over in red). Keep it Virginia “dated July 16, 1943
Your comment about the candlewicking bought this quilt to mind. It is embroidered in a heavy cotton thread, with an overall tree of life design. The effect is quite heavy, and if you fell asleep, with your cheek on it, you’d bear the print. It looks as if there was a fringe around the wdge of it at one time Any batting in it is very thin. The fabric looks like it might be handwoven, but I have not measured the width. It has been washed, alot.
I haven’t done much digging on this quilt other than to find the Mountmellick style of embroidery as described in a needlework Encyclopedia seems to be in terms of style and technique. Piecework Magazine reproduced a facsimile edition of “Weldon’s Practical Needlework, ” volume one. I hope they follow through with plans to publish a later volume which promises to cover mountmellick embroidery.
I also would hope to follow through on the family names, Nancy Arnold who is said to have made the quilt when she was sixteen, and who married John Denton in 1808.
As to the price. My dear spouse paid far to much for it, but it was a love gift, and I know he wanted to please me. I’ve not said a word, and it is a treasure.
Any leads would be appreciated. Go on, tell me I need to go to Ireland to do research. Linda Claussen
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:46:09 -0600 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsong@>
HI guys!!! I haven’t written or READ in so long, I thought I’d drop in and say ‘hi’ and I have a question.
This has been a Gruesome month for me and my family and in the interim of sitting with glazed looks and contemplating my navel….I came up with a question that I never DID understand about quilt-making… Just (((where)) did the l/4 inch seam come to be?? I mean, as dressmakers, we Always used a 5/8 seam, (or larger)….WHERE did the l/4 inch come from?? Did just One person use it and it caught on because that’s what she used for her pattern, and the whole World started, or, is there some subliminal meaning behind this??? ummmmmm…..still pondering ’till I get an answer.
And…what is Concheka…I didn’t spell that right, did I..?? I thought it was the name of the Maker, but, reading several different articles on new repros of it, it read as a particular “type” of fabric…?? See what happens when you’re in a ‘funk’ and twiddling your thumbs just
TOO much! hahaha…all these ‘deep’ questions ) kb
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Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 20:17:52 -0500 | From: Kathy <DeSchuit@>
Hi Karen,
I usually am just a lurker but will come out to answer your question about Concheka. It is really “Cocheco” (pronounced Co cheek O) and was a textile mill in Dover, NH that produced cotton fabrics. There is in fact a quilt guild by that name that meets in Dover. The American Textile Museum in Lowell, MA worked with the manufacturer to reproduce a collection of fabrics originally produced at Cocheco Mills in Dover.
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Kathy in NH ) MailtoDeSchuit@
“Families are like quilts lives pieced together, stitched with smiles and tears, colored with memories, bound with LOVE.”
Karen Bush wrote
> HI guys!!! I haven’t written or READ in so long, I thought I’d drop in and say ‘hi’ and I have a question.
> This has been a Gruesome month for me and my family and in the interim of sitting with glazed looks and contemplating my navel….I came up
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 16:09:57 -0500 | From: “Kris Driessen, Hickory Hill Quilts” <oldquilt@>
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> Does anyone have any input as to what type of backs did they use on quilts during the early 1800’s tp 1830’s (give or take a few years) Western Pa Brenda
rbappleg@
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 21:56:03 -0800 | From: “Christine Thresh” <christine@>
This is stretching things a bit since it is not about quilts, but the juxtaposition with my receipt of QHL and an e-mail from my 2nd Cousin (who is nearing 90) in the same batch of mail made me perk up. My cousin is writing about my great grandfather (his grandfather) “I know that he lived near Knoxville during the Civil War and went to Kentucky and enlisted in the Union Army with a friend. As a result of this, his father was assassinated while standing in the door of his home. When grandfather went back to his home after the war to see his mother, his brother was on the porch of the house with a rifle and told him that if he opened the gate, he would shoot him. Grandfather went back to Indiana and raised a large family . Years later, I have been told, some of the family did go to Tennessee and visited his mother. I don’t have details.” …………………………………………..
I have been doing a lot of picture research about my father’s family, and looking through hundred and hundreds of photos, I have not seen one tiny corner of a quilt peeking out of any of them. Darn. The photos led me to putting up a web page, then getting in touch with the family. Perhaps my cousin will find a picture of his grandmother with a quilt in her lap! He is searching.
Now, I really should trace the tale he told me by going through records in Tennessee for deaths, etc. I’m not really into genealogy. I would do it to trace down a quilt.
Christine Thresh http://www.winnowing.com/
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 07:53:57 EST | From: Midnitelaptop@
here’s an address for cocheco fabrics http://www.pbtex.com/html/cocheco.html
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 09:01:36 +0200 | From: Ady Hirsch <adamroni@>
Hi, Hiranya
My advance apologies for the length of this post – I once compiled a list of the SP books for a friend, so here goes (these are just the ones I’ve managed to locate).
Ady in Israel
Arizona – Grand Endeavors – Vintage Arizona Quilts and Their Makers – Helen Young Frost and Pa knight Stevenson Northland Publishing 91992) ISBN 0-87358-547-X
Arkansas – Arkansas Quilts – Arkansas Wartmh, Arkansas Quilter’s Guild, AQS 91987), ISBN 0-81945-932-4
California – Ho For California – Pioneer Woman and Their Quilts – Jean Ray Laury and the California Heritage Quilt Project, E.P. Dutton, NY (1990), ISBN 0-525-48533-3 (DP)
Florida -Florida Quilts – Cjarlotte Allen Williams, University Press of Florida (1992), ISBN 0-8130-1164-7 (pbk)
Illinois – Somewhere in Between – Quilts and Quilters of Illinois – Rita Barro Barber, AQS (1986)
– History From the heart -Quilt Paths Across Illinois – E. Duane Elbert and Rachel Kamm Elbert, Rutledge Hill Press (91993), ISBN 1-55853-155-6
Indiana – Quilts of Indiana – Crossroads of Memories – The Indiana Quilt Registry Project, Inc., Indiana University press (1991), ISBN 0-253-32925-6 Kansas – Kansas Quilts and Quilters, Barbara Brackman, Jennie A. Chinn, Gayle R. Davis, Terry THompson, Sara Reimer Farley, Nancy Hornback, University press of kansas (1993), ISBN 0-7006-0584-3
Kentucky – Kentucky Quilts 1800-1900 – The Kentucky Quilt Project – Jonathan Holstein, John Finley (1982), ISBN 1-880584-03-4 Michigan – Michigan Quilts – 150 Years of Textile Tradition – Ed. Marsha McDowell and Ruth B. Fitzgerald, Michigan State University Museum (1987), ISBN 0-944311-00-8
Missouri – Missouri Heritage Quilts, Bettina Havig, AQS (1986) Maryland – A Maryland Album – Quiltmaking traditions 1634-1934, Gloria Seaman Allen and Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn, Rutledge Hill Press (1995), ISBN 1-55853-341-9
Nebraska – Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers, Ed. patricia Cox Cres and Ronald C. Naugle, University of Nebraska Press (1991), ISBN0-8032-6346-5 – Quilts from Nebraska Collections (exhibition Catalog) New Jersey – New Jersey Quilts 1777-1950, Contributions to an American tradition, Rachel Cochran, Rita Eriksn, Natalie Hart & Barbara Schaffer, AQS (1992) ISBN0-89145-996-0
New York – New York Beauties – Quilts from the Empire State, Jacqueline M. Atkins and Phyllis A. Tepper, Dutton Studio Books NY(1992), ISBN 0-525-93432-4
North Carolina – North Carolina Quilts, Ellen Fickling Eanes, Erma hughes Kirkpatrick, Sue Barker McCarter, Joyce Joines Newman, Ruth Haislip Robertson, Kathlyn Fender Sullivan, University of North Carolina Press (1988), ISBN 0-8078-1811-9
Ohio – Quilts in Community– Ohio’s Traditions, Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Quilts, Quiltmakers and Traditions, Ricky Clarck, George W. Knepper and Ellice Ronsheim, Rutledge Hill Press 91991), ISBN 1-55853-101-7 Oregon – Treasures in the Trunk, Quilts of the Oregon Trail, Mary Baywater Cross, Rutledge Hill Press 91993), ISBN 1-55853-219-6
Pennsylvania – Threads of Tradition, Northern Pennsylvania Quilts, Ed. Marianne berger WoodsCrawford County Historical Society (1997), ISBN 0-9659939-0-6
– Saved for the People of Pennsylvania, Quilts from the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Lucinda Reddington Cawley, Lorraines DeAngelis Ezbiansky, Denise Rocheleau Nordberg, (1997) ISBN 0-89271-073-X The Hands That Made Them, Quilts of Adams County,
Pennsylvania, Adams County Quilt Project Committee (1993), ISBN 0-9636773-3-0
South Carolina – Social Fabric, South Carolina Traditional Quilts, Laurel Horton, Lynn Robertson Myers, McKissik Museum, University of South Carolina (Exhibition catalog)
Tennessee – Quilts of Tennessee, Images of Domestic Life Prior to 1930, Bets Ramsey and Merikay Waldvogel, Rutledge Hill Press (1986) ISBN 0-934395-30-6
Texas – Lone Stars Vol. I – A Legacy of texas Quilts 1836-1936; Lone Stars Vol. II, 1936-1980, Both by Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes, University of Texas press,(1986), (1990) ISBN 0-292-74641-5 (v/ I)
ISBN 0-292-74659-8 )v. II)
Utah – Gathered in Time, Utah Quilts and Their Makers, Settlement to 1950, Kae Covington, University of Utah Press (1997), ISBN 0-87480-541-4 – Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations, Mary Bywater Cross, Rutledge Hill press, (1996), ISBN 1-55853-399-0
Vermont – Plain and Fancy, Vermont People and their Quilts as a Reflection of America, Richard L. Cleveland and Donna Bister, the Quilt Digest Press (1991), ISBN 0-913327-30-1
Canada – Ontarion heritage Qiolts, Marilyn I. Walker, Boston Mills Press (1992), ISBN 1-55046-066-8
