Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:32:09 -0400 | From: “John Cawley” <cawley [at] goeaston [dot] net> On Thursday I went to Quilt Odyssey which debuted this weekend in Gettysburg,PA. Nice quilts, lots of vendors (not all the same ones we usually see at the East Coast shows), a facility…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:41:51 EDT | From: StanfieldA I find it necessary again to present a museum perspective re the conditions at the Smithsonian. First, please be aware that the Smithsonian Institution has one of the best and most professional staffs in the world. They know what…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:57:18 EDT | From: aol.com Also, weren’t Australian transportees taught to quilt on their prison ships before they left England? I seem to recall something about it in one of Janet Rae’s books…. Karen Evans Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 00:48:19 -0700 | From:…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:11:07 EDT | From: QuiltFixer@ In a message dated 7/2/00 9:07:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, QuiltFixer writes: << Subj: Re: QHL: pricing/learning using eBay Date: 7/2/00 9:07:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time | From: QuiltFixer In a message dated 7/2/00 7:17:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time,…
Primary topics of this QHL Digest: Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 09:10:16 EDT | From: CToczek@ Any reviews on the AQSG book called Quiltmaking in America, Beyond the Myths? Edited by Laurel Horton and includes articles and research from the first 10 years of the AGSG journals. It’s listing for $35.00, both at Hickory Hill…
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,…