Synopses & Reviews
The largest, most comprehensive history of American quilts ever published, The Quilt explores the evolution of quilting in America. Author Elise Schebler Roberts traces the path of the quilt’s history, from colonial whole cloth quilts to Victorian Crazies, and Depression-era patchwork to quilts of the present day, relating the stories behind these treasures and the people who stitched them together.
The Quilt is gloriously illustrated with more than 200 full-color photographs of classic collectible quilts, black-and-white historical photos of quilters, and vintage quilting memorabilia including pattern booklets, advertisements, posters, postcards, and more. Contributors include accomplished quilters and authors Alex Anderson, Patricia Cox, Sandra Dallas, Helen Kelley, Jean Ray Laury, and Ami Simms. The Quilt is one book no quilter will want to be without.
Quilter’s Newsletter, April 2008
“Investigate the evolution of quilting in America with one of the most comprehensive histories ever published!”
Synopsis
Here is the largest, most comprehensive history of American quilts ever published! The Quilt explores the evolution of quilting in America, showing in vivid colors and patterns how African American, Amish, Hawaiian, Hmong, and Native American quilts celebrate cultural identity, and how quilts connect us to one another through quilting bees and other community groups. Noted quilt historian Elise Schebler Roberts also goes beyond the historical nature of quilts to cover current efforts at quilt preservation, collecting and appraising, and state documentation projects. Her book features an encyclopedia of favorite quilt styles and is gloriously illustrated with more than 200 full-color photographs of classic collectible quilts.
Synopsis
Here is the largest, most comprehensive history of American quilts ever published The Quilt explores the evolution of quilting in America, showing in vivid colors and patterns how African American, Amish, Hawaiian, Hmong, and Native American quilts celebrate cultural identity, and how quilts connect us to one another through quilting bees and other community groups. Noted quilt historian Elise Schebler Roberts also goes beyond the historical nature of quilts to cover current efforts at quilt preservation, collecting and appraising, and state documentation projects. Her book features an encyclopedia of favorite quilt styles and is gloriously illustrated with more than 200 full-color photographs of classic collectible quilts.
About the Author
Elise Schebler Roberts is a quilt historian and writer who has been quilting for nearly twenty years. She is on the roster of Minnesota Folk Artists and the Minnesota Quilter's Guild, and she also works to preserve historic quilts as a member of the Minnesota Quilt Project. Previously the Curator of Education at the State Historical Society of Iowa, she is now working toward her doctorate in art and history while teaching art history and humanities at Minnesota School of Business. Elise has written numerous articles and is a contributing author to Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past, and Around the Quilt Frame, both published by Voyageur Press. She lives in the Twin Cities.
Helen Kelley, of Minneapolis, MN, is America’s most popular quilting columnist and has written for Quilter’s Newsletter for over twenty years. She is a master quilter and has taught and lectured across the country. Helen’s “Renaissance Quilt” was chosen as one of the 100 Best Quilts of the Twentieth Century. She is the author of Every Quilt Tells a Story and Helen Kelley’s Joy of Quilting and is the 2008 inductee into the prestigious Quilter's Hall of Fame.
Jennifer Chiaverini is the author of the Elm Creek Quilts Novels Series.
Table of Contents
Contents
Introduction
Part I: A History and Celebration
Chapter 1 Old World and Eastern Traditions
Chapter 2 Quilting in a New World
Chapter 3 Commemorative Quilting
Chapter 4 Quilting for Social Change
Chapter 5 Quilting for Identity
Chapter 6 Quilting in Communities
Chapter 7 Quilting for Life and Death
Chapter 8 Quilts as Gifts
Chapter 9 Quilts on Display
Chapter 10 Quilting as Business
Chapter 11 Sharing the Knowledge
Part II: An Encyclopedia of Classic Quilt Styles
Appliqué
Art Quilts
Crazy Quilts
Embroidered Quilts
Kit Quilts
Friendship and Memory Quilts
Patchwork Quilts
Whole Cloth and Trapunto Quilts
Part III Saving and Studying Our Quilts
Collecting Quilts
Taking Care of Quilts
Studying Quilts Preserving and Exhibiting Quilts