These articles are from QuiltHistory.com. The server that hosted them had a crash, but I was able to resurrect them from old backups.
- A brief essay on dating antique quilts
- “A Brief History of the ‘Feedsack'” by Jane Clark Stapel. The founder of the Feedsack Club provides some historical background on this American phenomenon.
- A Short Introduction to Period Quilting
- The Alliance for American Quilts: Partnerships Launching Quilts onto Center Stage
- http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/
- American Kit Quilts by Xenia Cord
- American Memory – The Library of Congress. Enter “quilt” in the search engine and a great many images and articles will be returned, including WPA interviews with quilters during the Depression.
- Art Institute of Chicago Textile Collection
- Bibliography
- British Quilt History
- Buying Old Quilts by Deborah Roberts
- “The Civil War Quilt,” from The Virtual Quilt Newsletter. Diane and Jim Lockwood embark on an adventure when they purchase an old Georgia quilt.
- Cleaning your Antique Quilt including a Stain Removal Guide
- Conservation Supplies
- Dear Jane – the 225 patterns from the 1863 Jane A. Stickle quilt.
- Dry Cleaning Historic Textiles by Costume and Textile Specialists This is a Word document. If you do not have Word, you can use the Word Viewer here.
- Early use of Natural Dyes in Textiles
- Feedsack Information
- Flooded? Here is information on washing quilts after a flood. www.textilepreservation.com
- History of Crazy Quilts
- How to Care For and Salvage Your Textiles After a Flood
- Indispensable Indigo-The Deepest of Blue
- Making a Silk Purse out of a Sow’s Ear – using those wonderful vintage blocks in a new quilt. Kris Driessen
- Making of America: Text of early magazines
- Marie Webster
- Oregon Quilt Project
- Preserving Historic Quilts
- Putting it in Perspective: The Symbolism of Underground RailRoad Quilts
- Quilt Care – Practical Tips for the Use and Enjoyment of Antique Quilts
- The Quilt Index
- The Quilt Projects: 15 Years Later by Shelly Zegart
- Quilting and Patchwork in the British Isles
- The Quiltmakers Legacy: Our Quilting and Textile Heritage.
- Quilts, Counterpanes & Throws, a Selection from the National Collection. Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History. (Virtual Exhibition)
- Repair, Restore, Conserve – What to do with damaged antique quilts
- The Sewing Machine and Quilters in the 19th Century by Kimberly Wulfert, PhD
- Signature/Friendship/Subscription Quilts
- Southern Quilting — One hundred fifty years of a shared tradition. This historical study of quilting in the south was put on the web by Jamie Leigh, an undergraduate in the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia.
- Stain Removal Guide for Quilts and other Textiles
- State Documentation Books
- “Surviving the Winter: The Evolution of Quiltmaking Among Two Cultures in New Mexico” by Dorothy Zopf. Beautifully constructed and well-written site with essay and gallery of quilts.
- Sweet Clara’s Freedom Hidden In Plain View; A Quilted Maze of Skepticism and Controversy
- A Timeline of Quilting History in America – Dawn Duperault
- The Influence of 19th century women’s lives on textiles – Kris Driessen
- The Underground Railroad Quilt “Code”
- Top Ten Titles for the Study of Antique Quilts
- Threading your Research Needle; Research Methods for Quilt & Textile Researchers; 9 Steps for Getting Started to Finishing; and Online & Print Resources for Researching
- Types of Quilt Appraisals. Click here for a list of appraisers.
- Underground Railroad Myths Debunked
- Victorian Mourning Customs from Collier
- Wet Cleaning Historic Textiles by Costume and Textile Specialists This is a Word document. If you do not have Word, you can use the Word Viewer here.
- http://www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/ and Patches From the Past
- Explore the history of quilts and the women who created them through links to pictures and brief articles. Very good for beginning quilt history enthusiasts, as well as classroom study. Enjoyable for everyone. Written by Anne Johnson
- Copyright, Quilt History Research
- Illinois Quilt History A website dedicated to helping research Illinois’s contribution to quilt history, by Susan Wildemuth.
- International Sewing Machine Collector’s Society Vintage sewing machine info, articles, particulars of all types of old machines.
- Na Pua O Hawaii quilts
- A display of Hawaiian quilts; text by Linda B. Arthur, PhD, Guest Curator Ginny Meade, MS, Horticultural Consultant University of Hawaii at Manoa
- Nimble Needle Treasures Magazine, published quarterly,1969 – 1975 issues. All issues of the magazine, plus the interactive index, are now on CD. Written by Patricia A. Randolph
- Northern Comfort: New England’s Early Quilts
- An online exhibit of Old Sturbridge Village’s quilt collection with informative text about the start of textile history in America and early quilts.
- Old and newer textiles defined in the Oxford English dictionary. Compiled by Patrick Leech
- Quilt History State Documentation and Publications list