These restored messages come from the Quilt History List, an online forum where quilt historians, collectors, researchers, appraisers, and enthusiasts discussed antique quilts and related textiles. The archive dates from 1996 through approximately 2016 and is being restored gradually. Original spelling, opinions, formatting, and inactive links may remain unchanged.
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:55:12 -0400 | From: maria@ (Maria Elkins) Regarding databases of quilt books I recently put together a list of my quilt books similar to what you are talking about. I didn’t have the time to go through every book myself, so my solution was…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:57:51 +1000 | From: “Kate Knight” <kknighteisa.net.au> Hi all, Only the other night I was given a “recipe” by a well respected Aussie quilt collector/historian who also happens to be a research chemist on how to remove brown rust stains from old quilts…she recommended…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:22:53 -0400 | From: LE Miller <lemiller@> For anyone thinking about going to the “Petals and Plumage” exhibit at Cornell: The exhibit was closed early and is no longer at the museum. I found out after driving to Ithaca to see the exhibit and…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:50:28 -0400 | From: “Wykes Family” <wykesfcn@> > Lots of folks had a go at silk manufacturing in the 1800’s. One such operation that went bust was in Belding, Michigan. Anyone remember seeing Belding/Corticelli on an old wooden spool? The mulberry trees couldn’t survive…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 08:44:32 +0200 | From: Ady Hirsch <adamroninetvision.net.il> Hi, everyoneJust to clear up a few things – Monika, why not discuss “insovable” issues? I doubt anyone here presumes to settle any issues once and for all, and see no harm in airing (different) views. Isn’t…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:21:08 PDT | From: “Anne Copeland” <anneappraiser@> Yes, you are right. When a museum gets an article donated into its collection, it is acquisitioned–a number or identifier is assigned to it. Unless an object is on loan to a museum, they can in fact,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:27:00 -0400 | From: “Kris Driessen, Hickory Hill Quilts” <oldquilt@> A long time ago, we were discussing the age of the earliest quilts. This article isn’t really about quilts – it refers to the opening of a new museum exhibit in Toronto – but…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 13:58:42 -0400 | From: “J. G. Row” <Judygrow@> The DAR Museum has just released its 2nd heritage applique quilt pattern. It is a reproduction of the Mary Simon Quilt, a Baltimore Album style quilt. There are full size black and white drawings of each…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:21:19 -0500 | From: “quilt97” <quilt97@> Laura and others, Please explain a little more about developing a fabric dating workbook. Do you recommend saving a small piece of every fabric? Listing date, where purchased, price? What else? I had never thought of doing this…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 21:12:51 -0500 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsong> I feel/felt the same way about the MacArthur quilt, and wrote to the seller, very terse and short comment that she/he didn’t know the ‘history’ of the quilt. I shudder to think there would be a family…