Quilts

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The records consist of an exhibit booklet and art piece from Gifts from the Pavement.

Scope and Contents The American Quilt Study Group (AQSG) Records include administrative correspondence, the "Blanket Statement" newsletters, and documents created through administrative and general membership activities. The subject and research files document a wide variety of topics related to quilt studies and textiles. The files were initially developed through the efforts of Sally Garoutte, Joyce Gross, and through the activities and administration of AQSG. The subject files were developed through the...

Scope and Contents The papers include correspondence, publications, articles, quilt research, slides, news clippings, materials related to symposiums and seminars attended, materials related to the creation and opening of the International Quilt Study Center (IQSC), materials related to the James Foundation, exhibit and event files, quilt appraisals, interviews, information packets from the IQSC, IQSC advisory board files, photos, materials related to trips to Japan, James Collection inventories and photos,...

Scope and Contents The papers include correspondence related to quilt exhibits and kits, china, and historic preservation. They include a set of magazines titled "Pieces of Time," created by the Iowa Illinois Quilt Study Group, and "An Education Auxiliary of the Kalona Quilt and Textile Museum," Kalona Historical Village, Kalona, Iowa. These include articles by Arene Burgess in April 2007, August 2008, August 2009, August 2011, April 2012, April, 2013, and April 2014. Photos of Burgess' quilts appear in the...

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The records contain albums of photographs and materials from exhibits such as reviews, artist statements, slides, publicity, articles, early digitally generated photomontage quilts, exhibit cards, and catalogs. The records also include a journal by Arlé Sklar-Weinstein that accompanied a traveling exhibit, publications, and digital media.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of quilt materials collected by Barbara Brackman including publications, fabric swatches, patterns and designs, news clippings and articles, newspapers, magazines, scrapbooks and notebooks, photographs and slides, posters and publicity for exhibits, and catalogs. Also included are research notes and correspondence about a range of topics including Civil War and Union quilts, enslaved and abolitionist quilters including Harriet Tubman, Ona Judge, Martha Ann Ricks, and...

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The records contain fabric samples, templates, and postcards.

Scope and Contents The collection includes a newspaper column written by Bets Ramsey called "The Quilter," which ran from 1982-1997 in The Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga, Tennessee. There are research materials related to specific people and correspondence collected by Ramsey, as well as information on quilt shows. The collection has assorted newsletters and catalogs, magazine articles, and newspaper clippings. The articles and clippings contain information on various...

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The records consist of Betacam and VHS source tapes, finished VHS film, script, correspondence, promotional materials, interview logs and consent forms, and other materials related to the production of the 1998 documentary, "Unraveling the Stories: Quilts as a Reflection of Our Lives" created by Luanne Bole-Becker and Bob Becker.

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The papers consist of scrapbooks, a quilt diary, quilt patterns and designs, articles and publications, correspondence, photographs, and historical documents about quilt artists Alice Zwanck and Joseph Raffael.

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The collection includes newspaper articles and newsletters about quilting in Hawaii. The catalogs included in the collection offer numerous quilts imported from China, advertised as handmade.

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The records consist of scrapbooks, ribbons and awards, newsletters and publications, programs and publicity from quilt shows, newspaper clippings, quilt patterns, and correspondence.

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The records consist of materials collected by Carolyn O’Bagy Davis about Hopi quilt artists including seven exhibit plaques consisting of a photograph and description of the artists depicted, correspondence, a print-out of a story about the Hopi Village of Mishongnovi with photographs of artwork from Toh-Atin Gallery, Durango, CO, and a VHS tape about Hopi quilts.

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The records consist of newspaper clippings and publications featuring Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry, programs and publicity from exhibits, postcards and pamphlets from Bryer Patch Studio, workshop handouts, patterns, and sample folds.

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The records contain an artist statement and resume.

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The records contain correspondence, templates, and a publication related to the artwork "In the Shallows."

Scope and Contents The correspondence and several research files relate to documentation work done for the Bayles Quilt (also spelt Bayless or Bayliss) held at the Dallas Historical Society. The majority of research materials are photocopies of articles and research sources related to a specific topic. Many of the research files include Church's handwritten notes and comments on the published articles. Types of items within the research files include correspondence, photocopies of published articles, research...

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The correspondence in this collection detail inquiries about donating the Bettis oral history materials to the American Quilt Study Group. The collection includes typed transcriptions and 9 cassette tapes of an oral interview with Dorothy Bettis done by Glenna Brock between May and September 1988. There are also photographs of selected quilts created by Bettis, with detailed information on the quilts.

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The collection includes correspondence and numerous original items relating to quilt shows, exhibits, conferences, and quilt contests. The majority of items are promotional flyers, brochures, pamphlets, catalogs, and conference materials.

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The records consists of newspaper clippings and articles, information about exhibits, exhibit catalogs and postcards, resumes, artist statements, awards, programs and pamphlets, publications, and posters.

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The papers consist of scrapbooks, correspondence with many quilters around the country, photographs, and documentation of her quilts and Happiness Museum.

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The collection contains materials on Wheatcroft-Granick's research and writings on Amish quilts and quilt-making. Included is correspondence, research materials and notes on the Amish, photocopied articles about the Amish, as well as a manuscript of a book on the Amish and Quilts. In addition there are some fabric samples, and cassette tapes of interviews with Joyce Brown and Sam Greenburg.

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The records contain support materials including designs, artist statements, and publications.

Scope and Contents The papers consist of research and audio visual material compiled by Pat Ferrero and Julie Silber for their film, Hearts and Hands: A Social History of Nineteenth Century Women and Quilts. Included in the collection is correspondence with quilt historians, along with research articles sent to Ferrero and Silber. The research files are primarily articles pertaining to a wide range of topics concerning nineteenth century women, social history, and quilting,...

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The collection includes correpondence written to Peto and articles written by her for magazines, such as American Home and Antiques Magazine.

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The records include working notes, project outlines and scope, correspondence, quilt layout planning files, installation instructions, slides, fabric samples, appraisals of Hive Project artists, publicity and press releases, Statements of Understanding, agreements and contracts for showing the quilt, publications, consent forms, photographs, newspaper clippings, CDs of project files, and a VHS tape.

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Jan Stelik, Quilt Papers contains correspondence, classes and talks, quilt patterns, newspaper clippings, quilt articles, and scrapbooks on bluebird, paisley, and Dutch imagery research that Stelik used to research her articles and book,Sod House Treasures and Other Nebraska Quilt Patterns.

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The papers include Dunnewold's notebooks with design ideas and notes, awards, correspondence, publications by or featuring Dunnewold, newspaper clippings, and art exhibition catalogs and fliers. Also included are handmade artbooks, designs, newsletters, and photographs of Dunnewold’s work

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The records contain publications featuring the work of Jane Sassaman.