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: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 08:49:40 -0800 | From: “Mindy Sharp” <minsha@> Someone suggested putting a family tree as a label on the back of an old quilt. My grandmother made this for me when I was born many years ago. It does not have a label or signature….
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 21:18:17 -0600 | From: Karen Bush <Birdsong@ > . AAAACHHHHh…I’ve seen that too Alan..NOT a red and green,(I’d still be sobbing) but, ones they “call” cutters and make the teddy bears out of them. Now, I have NOTHING against that! I’ve done it myself,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 09:33:22 EST | From: [from unknown] I know the scissors motif on quilts has been discussed in the past but I need a quick review. I recently purchased a red/green 4-block Whig Rose with a green vine border that has 28 pair of red…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:52:45 -0600 | From: Russell-Hill <russhill@> Hi all, I have been reading the thread lately about teaching the teacher. I agree. I am a former teacher and a reenactor of the periods 1830 up through the Civil War and so many people do not…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:28:41 -0500 | From: [from unknown] My son was looking for information about canoes on the Peterborough Museum (Canada) site and came across a page of several quilts in their collection – check it out. Nice 1836 quilt and others.http://www.kawartha.net/~jleonard/qexhibit.htm Linda Date: Sat, 6…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:27:26 EST | From: WileneSmth@ I’m having a very difficult time keeping quiet on this subject as I read the various posts because I’ve been privy to some “inside” info recently regarding the original manuscript of this book as it was BEFORE the publisher’s…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:01:39 -0700 | From: Monika Jones <monikaj@ As interesting as her archeology is in this work, it is the fresh perspective that the author brought to the study of archaeological sites that is so special. Trained as an historian, she was raised by weavers…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 08:37:38 -0400 | From: “Joan Brown” <jfbrown@ Hello all, I have a friend who would like to research a quilt she just bought. She thinks it is a Baltimore Album quilt. It has a signature and the date 1853 quilted into it. I can…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 22:10:20 -0500 | From: lessmann@ (Ellen Lessmann) I have to share my latest plunge with all of you. I have read the list faithfully since its inception, but rarely post, prefering to read and learn from all of you. I love old quilts, and…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 11:04:42 +0200 | From: “Tilde Binger” <binger.hougaard@ Hi Another pop out from lurk-dom Went and looked at the Eagle-quilt you have been discussing and thought “I have seen on like it recently”. There is a pic. of one in Kiracofe and Johnson’ “The American…