Bibliography
Most states, and several countries, have conducted documentation days and issued a book highlighting their research. These books are listed below. If they are still in print, the title is hyper linked for purchase. If not, they will show an (OOP) notation. For more resources, see:
Top Ten Titles for the Study of Antique Quilts
Please note: the New England Quilt Museum will loan books on quilt study
Alabama - ALABAMA QUILTS: BLACK BELT TO HILL COUNTRY: Alabama Quilts From the Helen and Robert Cargo Collection Gail C. Andrews, et al. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art. ©1982 92pp. (OOP)
Arizona -
Grand
Endeavors, Vintage Arizona Quilts and Their Makers by Helen Young Frost and
Pam Knight Stevenson, 1992, Northland Publishing (OOP)
Arkansas - Arkansas Quilts - Arkansas Warmth, Arkansas Quilter's Guild, AQS 91987), ISBN
0-81945-932-4 (OOP)
A Piece of My Soul : Quilts by Black
Arkansans showcases more than seventy-five individual pieces of patchwork quilt art in
full-color photography. Each is accompanied by Cuesta Benberry's informative commentary as
she details the importance of quilting to black Arkansas and the extensive holdings of
African American quilts in the Old State House Museum in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Enthusiastically recommended reading for students of Black History, southern popular
culture, and the needlecraft arts, A Piece Of My Soul explains the quilt's uses,
materials, and construction, as well as what each piece featured says about the
needlecraft artist and her beliefs.
Australia Quiltmakers of Australia: Celebrating the Traditions by Karen Fail; Paperback
California - Ho For California - Pioneer Woman and Their Quilts - Jean Ray Laury and the California Heritage Quilt Project, E.P. Dutton, NY (1990), ISBN 0-525-48533-3 (DP) (OOP)
Canada - Ontario heritage Quilts, Marilyn I. Walker, Boston Mills Press (1992), ISBN 1-55046-066-8 (OOP)
Quiltworks Across Canada by Gail P. Hunt; Hardcover
Connecticut - Quilts and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut from the Connecticut Quilt Search Project, available in December 2001.
Delaware - Quilted for Friends - Delaware Valley Signature Quilts 1840 - 1855
Florida -Florida
Quilts - Charlotte Allen Williams, University Press of Florida (1992), ISBN
0-8130-1164-7
France - Quilts of Provence: The Art and Craft of French Quiltmaking. NY: Henry Holt, 1996. Berenson, Kathryn,
Quilt Treasures of Great Britain: The Heritage Search of the Quilters' Guild by Janet Rae, Margaret Tucker, Dinah Travis; Hardcover
Hawaii - Robert Shaw, Hawaiian Quilt
Masterpieces (New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1996).
Hawaii - Brandon, Reiko Mochinaga, The Hawaiian Quilt. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1989.
Hawaii - Hawaiian Quilts. rev. ed.. Honolulu: Hawaiian Academy of Arts, 1973 (originally published in 1930) Jones, Stella M.,
Hawaii- "The Wilcox Quilts in Hawaii;" Robert J. Schleck (1986); Grove Farm Homestead & Waioli Mission House, Kauai, HI; ISBN 0-9617174-0-8
Hawaii - The Queen’s
Quilt. Honolulu: The Friends of ‘Iolani Palace, 2004. Hackler, Rhoda E.A.
and Loretta G.H. Woodard.
Hawaii -
Hawaiian Quilts, Tradition and Transition. Tokyo: Kokusai Art, 2003.
Brandon, Reiko Mochinaga and Loretta G.H. Woodard. This was reissued in 2005 by
the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the University of Hawaii Press.
Hawaii - Woodard, Loretta G. “Quilts.”
In Finding
Paradise, Island Art in Private Collections, ed. Don Severson and Mike
Horikawa. Honolulu: The Honolulu Academy of Arts and The University of Hawaii
Press, 2003.
Illinois - Somewhere in Between - Quilts and Quilters of Illinois - Rita Barro
Barber, AQS (1986) (OOP)
Illinois - History From the heart
-Quilt Paths Across Illinois - E. Duane Elbert and Rachel Kamm Elbert, Rutledge Hill Press
(91993), ISBN 1-55853-155-6
Patchwork
Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair/the Sears National Quilt Contest and Chicago's Century
of Progress Exposition
by Merikay Waldvogel, Barbara Brackman; Paperback
Indiana - Indiana Quilts of Indiana; Crossroads of Memories. Marilyn Goldman & Marguerite Weibusch, chairs. Indiana University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-253-32925-6
Iowa - THE THREAD THAT REMAINS: PATTERNS FROM IOWA'S PAST.
Des Moines: Iowa Quilts Research Project ©1990. (OOP)
A magazine THE PALIMPSEST: IOWA'S POPULAR HISTORY MAGAZINE Vol. 71
Number1 Spring 1990 contained a summary of the Iowa Quilt Research Project efforts
in a brief article by Steven Blaski entitled "Quilts
Reveal Lives of Early Iowans" p. 33 that was preceded by a profusely illustrated 17-
page article by Carole A. Spencer "Victorian Crazy Quilts " pp. 16-32.
These crazy quilts were from the Des Moines museum collection of
the State Historical Society of Iowa. (OOP)
Kansas - Kansas Quilts and
Quilters, Barbara Brackman, Jennie A. Chinn, Gayle R. Davis, Terry THompson, Sara
Reimer Farley, Nancy Hornback, University press of kansas (1993), ISBN 0-7006-0584-3
Kentucky - Kentucky Quilts 1800-1900 - The Kentucky Quilt Project - Jonathan Holstein,
John Finley (1982), ISBN 1-880584-03-4 (OOP)
Kentucky - Kentucky Quilts and their Makers. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1976. Kentucky - Clarke, Mary Washington,
Maryland - A Maryland Album - Quiltmaking traditions 1634-1934, Gloria Seaman Allen and Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn, Rutledge Hill Press (1995), ISBN 1-55853-341-9
Michigan -
MacDowell, Marsha L. African
American Quiltmaking in Michigan. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press
and Michigan State University Museum, 1997. 0-87013-410-8. 162 pages; illus;
Michigan - Michigan Quilts - 150 Years of Textile Tradition - Ed. Marsha McDowell and Ruth B. Fitzgerald, Michigan State University Museum (1987), ISBN 0-944311-00-8
Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past (Hardcover)
by Gail Bakkom (Author), Jean arlton (Author), Helen Kelley (Foreword), Greg Winter (Photographer), Lee Sandberg (Photographer) Voyageur Press (May 30, 2005) 192 pages; illus
Mississippi - Mississippi
quilts Mary Elizabeth Johnson for the Mississippi Quilt Association ;
photography by J.D. Schwalm. Jackson, MS : University Press of MMinnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Pastississippi, 2001.
Mississippi - David Crosby. Quilts and Quilting in Claiborne County: Tradition and Change in a Rural Southern Community. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, 1999. (OOP)
Missouri - Missouri Heritage Quilts by Bettina Havig Pub. By American Quilters Society, Paducah, Kentucky, 1985 (OOP)
Montana - Hurley, Mary. Celebrating one hundred years : the Montana centennial quilt, 1889-1989 Mary Hurley and Marian S. Sweeney. Stevensville, Mont. (260 Paso Dr., Stevensville 59870) : M. Hurley, 1988. 71 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. (OOP)
Nebraska - Nebraska
Quilts and Quiltmakers, Ed. Patricia Cox Cres and Ronald C. Naugle, University of
Nebraska Press (1991), ISBN0-8032-6346-5
Nebraska - QUILTS FROM THE NEBRASKA COLLECTIONS. Lincoln Quilters' Guild. Lincoln, NE:
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. 1974. (OOP)
New England - Northern Comfort: New
Englands' Early Quilts 1780 - 1850. Bassett, Lynne Z and Larkin, Jack.From
the collection of Old Sturbridge Village. Photographs by Thomas Neill. 1998.
New England - What's New England About New England Quilts?: Proceedings of a Symposium at Old Sturbridge Village; edited by Lynne Z. Bassett. Sturbridge MA: Old Sturbridge Village, 1999
New
Jersey - New Jersey
Quilts 1777-1950, Contributions to an American tradition, Rachel Cochran, Rita Eriksn,
Natalie Hart & Barbara Schaffer, AQS (1992) ISBN0-89145-996-0
New Mexico - Surviving the winter :
the evolution of quiltmaking in New Mexico by Dorothy R. Zopf. 1st ed. Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press, c2001
New York - Quilted together : women, quilts, and communities edited by Joyce Ice and Linda Norris. Delhi, N.Y. : Delaware County Historical Association,
New York - New York Beauties - Quilts from the Empire State, Jacqueline M. Atkins and Phyllis A. Tepper, Dutton Studio Books NY(1992), ISBN 0-525-93432-4 (OOP)
New York - The Unbroken Thread: A History of Quiltmaking in the Catskills. Hoare, Steve. Hensonville, NY: Black Dome Press, 1996. [New York]
New York - Patterns in Time: Quilts of Western New York. Hoffman, Lynn T. Buffalo, NY: Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 1990. (OOP)
North Carolina - North
Carolina Quilts, Ellen Fickling Eanes, Erma hughes Kirkpatrick, Sue Barker McCarter,
Joyce Joines Newman, Ruth Haislip Robertson, Kathlyn Fender Sullivan, University of North
Carolina Press (1988), ISBN 0-8078-1811-9
North Dakota - Morning star quilts
: a presentation of the work and lives of Northern Plains Indian women Florence
Pulford. 1st ed. Los Altos, Calif. : Leone Publications, c1989. 80 p. : col. ill., map ;
30 cm.
North Dakota - Native needlework : contemporary Indian textiles from North Dakota edited by Christopher Martin. Fargo, ND : North Dakota Council on the Arts, c1988. 47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. [OOP]
North Dakota - A CENTURY OF QUILTS: An exhibit of North Dakota quilts in honor of one hundred years of statehood 1889-1989. Kim R.L. Baird. Fargo, N.D.: The Quilters' Guild of North Dakota. (OOP)
Nova Scotia - Old Nova Scotian Quilts. Nova Scotia Museum & Nimbus Publishing Limited, 1995. Robson, Scott & MacDonald, Sharon,
Ohio - Quilts in Community-
Ohio's Traditions, Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Quilts, Quiltmakers and Traditions,
Ricky Clarck, George W. Knepper and Ellice Ronsheim, Rutledge Hill Press 91991), ISBN
1-55853-101-7
Ohio - Ohio quilts, a living tradition by M.J. Albacete, Sharon D'Atri, Jane Reeves ; photographs by Dave Bissett. Canton, Ohio (1001 Market Ave. North, Canton 44702) : Canton Art Institute, c1981. 59 p. : ill. (OOP)
Ohio - Muhlberger, Esther Veach. The history of the Bicentennial Quilt project of the Ohio Valley Quilters' Guild by Esther Veach Muhlberger. [Cincinnati, Ohio] : The Guild, [c1989] 22 p. ; 22 cm. (OOP)
Oklahoma - Oklahoma Heritage
Quilts, Oklahoma Quilt Heritage Project, American Quilters Society, Paducah, Kentucky,
1990
Ontario's Heritage Quilts by Marilyn Walker; Hardcover
Oregon - Treasures in the Trunk, Quilts of the Oregon Trail, Mary Bywater Cross, Rutledge Hill Press 91993), ISBN 1-55853-219-6
Pennsylvania - Lasansky, Jeanette. On the Cutting Edge:
Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions (symposium papers). Lewisburg PA: Union
County Historical Society Oral Traditions Project, 1994
Pennsylvania - "Of the Best Sort but Plain": Quaker Quilts from the Delaware Valley 1760- 1890. Author: Patricia J. Keller. Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1996. (OOP)
Pennsylvania - Lest I Be Forgotten by Nancy & Donald Roan; Goshenhoppen Historians, Inc. (1993) ISBN 1-883801-02-8
Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Quilts: One Hundred Years 1830-1930. Philadelphia, PA: Moore College of Art, 1978. (OOP)
Pennsylvania - "In the Heart of Pennsylvania;" J. Lasansky, Oral History Project, (1985) ISBN 0-917127-00-5 (OOP)
Pennsylvania - Plain & Fancy: Country Quilts of the Pennsylvania- Germans, NY: Sterling, 1992. Schorsch, Amita, (OOP)
Pennsylvania - The Hands That Made Them, Quilts of Adams County, Pennsylvania, Adams County Quilt Project Committee (1993), ISBN 0-9636773-3-0 (OOP)
Pennsylvania - In the Heart of Pennsylvania Symposium Papers. Lewisburg PA: Union County Historical Society Oral Traditions Project, Lewisburg, 1986 [OOP]
Pennsylvania - Saved for the People of Pennsylvania, Quilts from the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Lucinda Reddington Cawley, Lorraines DeAngelis Ezbiansky, Denise Rocheleau Nordberg, (1997) ISBN 0-89271-073-X
Pennsylvania - Threads of Tradition, Northern Pennsylvania Quilts, Ed. Marianne berger WoodsCrawford County Historical Society (1997), ISBN 0-9659939-0-6
Pennsylvania - Quilts from Two Valleys
- Amish Quilts from the Big Valley; Mennonite Quilts from the Shenendoah
Valley.
Pennsylvania - Quilts: the Fabric of Friendship - York County Pa. Documentation Project Angelo, Sharon, Blevins, Garrett, Hamme, Heefner, Stetler Schiffer Publishing Atlgen, Pa. 2000 0-7643-1195-6 160 Paper Back $29.95
Pennsylvania - Quilted Memories of Schuylkill County. Schuylkill County Quilters Guilt, Kutztown Publishing Co, Kutztown PA 1999 570-754-3038 80 (OOP)
Pennsylvania - Quilting Traditions: Pieces from the past (Lancaster County Documentation) Herr, Patricia T.schiffer Publishing Atglen, Pa 2000 0-7643-1121-2 160 Paper Back
Pennsylvania - the Hands That Made Them ... Quilts of Adams County, Pennsylvania Bennett, Ellie, et Al Adams County Quilt Project Camp Hill, Pa. 1993 0-9636773-3-0 132 Paper Back (OOP)
Pennsylvania - Bits and Pieces, Textile Traditions Lasansky,
Jeanette; Gunn, Virginia, et Al Oral Traditions Report Lewisburg, Pa 1991 0-917127-06-4
120 lasansky, Jeanette. (OOP)
Pennsylvania - Pieced by Mother Symposium Papers, Lasansky, Jeanette; 120 pages (April 1988) Union County Historical Society; ISBN: 091712703X
Pennsylvania - Quilts from Appalachia. A catalog from an exhibit sponsored by Penn State's Palmer Museum of Art and Central PA Village Crafts, Inc., published in 1988. The authors are Patricia MacNeal and Maude Wahlman. It includes a brief biography of each of the quilters represented as well as a brief history of the region, its settlement and its textile traditions and roots.
Rhode Island - Down by the Old Mill Stream; edited by Linda Welters and Margaret T. Ordonez, Kent State University Press, 2000
South Carolina - Social Fabric: South Carolina's Traditional Quilts; edited by Laurel Horton and Lynn R. Myers. Columbia SC: University of South Carolina McKissick Museum, 1986?. 56 pages [OOP]
South Dakota - Quilting Patterns from Native American Designs by Joyce Mori; Paperback
To Honor and
Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions
by Marsha MacDowell, C. Kurt Dewhurst; Paperback
Sweden - Wettre,Asa - Old Swedish Quilts 1995
Interweave Press, Colorado (OOP)
Tennessee - Southern Quilts; Surviving Relics of the Civil War. Ramsey, Bets, and Brackman, Barbara Rutledge Hill Nashville, Tenn. 1998 1-55853-598-5 160 Paper Back
Tennessee - Cross, Mary Bywater. Quilts and Women of
the Morman Migrations [Utah]: Treasures of Transition. Nashville, Tn: Rutledge Hill Press,
1996.
Tennessee - a People and Their Quilts Irwin, John Rice Schiffer Publishing Atglen, Pa 1984 0-88740-024-8 214 Paper Back [Tennessee] (OOP)
Tennessee - The Quilts of
Tennessee: Images of Domestic Life Prior to 1930 by Bets Ramsey, Merikay Waldvogel;
Paperback Rutledge Hill Press (1986) Isbn 0-934395-30-6
Texas - Texas quilts, Texas women by Suzanne Yabsley. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1984. xv, 99 p. : ill.
Lone Stars: A Legacy of
Texas Quilts, 1836-1936 Vol 1
by Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes; Paperback
Lone Stars: A
Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986 Vol 2
by Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes; Paperback
Texas - Texas Quilts, Texas Treasures. Paducah, KY: AQS, 1986. 160 pages [OOP]
Texas - Prairie Windmill Quilt History & Research Chapter, National Quilting Association, Quilts of the Texas South Plains: A Sesquicentennial Exhibition, Oct. 19, 1986-Mar. 8, 1987. Lubbock, TX: Ranching Heritage Center, The Museum, Texas Tech University, 1986.
Texas Treasures - Texas Heritage Quilt Society 1986, published by the American Quilters' Society, Paducah
Texas - Mason, Melvin Rosser, 1927- Martha Mitchell of Possum Walk Road : Texas quiltmaker text by Melvin Rosser Mason ; photographs by Westen McCoy. 1st ed. Huntsville, Tex. : Texas Review Press, 1999. 80 pages; illus.
Texas Quilts and Quilters; A Lone Star Legacy. Part of the Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest, a book series published by Texas Tech University Press, this new hardcover book by Marcia Kaylakie explores the stories of Texas quilters. 2007.
United Kingdom - Quilt Treasures - The Quilters' Guild Heritage Search, 1996, Deirdre McDonald Books, London
United Kingdom - Quilts of the British Isles Rae,Janet- 1987 Constable, London
Utah - Gathered in Time: Utah Quilts and Their Makers, Settlement to 1950by Kae Covington; University of Utah Press (1997), ISBN 0-87480-541-4
Utah - Quilts and Women of the Mormon Migrations, Mary Bywater Cross, Rutledge Hill press, (1996), ISBN 1-55853-399-0
Utah - Pioneer quiltmaker : the story of Dorinda Moody Slade, 1808-1895 by Carolyn O'Bagy Davis. Tucson, Ariz. : Sanpete Publications, c1990. 73 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. [Utah]
Vermont - Plain and Fancy,
Vermont People and their Quilts as a Reflection of America, Richard L. Cleveland and Donna
Bister, the Quilt Digest Press (1991), ISBN 0-913327-30-1
Virginia
- Quilts of Virginia. Virginia Consortium of Quilters.
Click here for more
information.
Virginia - VIRGINIA QUILTS, by Hazel Carter, published by The Continental Quilting Congress, 1987 (OOP)
Virginia - Mennonite Quilts from the Shenandoah Valley Good, Phyllis Pellman Good Books Intercouse, Pa. 1999 1-56148-286-2 76 Paperback (OOP)
Virginia - Virginia "First Flowers: Early Virginia Quilts," Gloria Seaman Allen, Curator (Jly 20- Oct 18, 1987)
Virginia - Virginia Quilts: First Search for Virginia Made Quilts, Beginning in Northern Virginia;" Text by Hazel Carter; Sponsored by the Continental Quilting Congress (1987) (OOP)
Virginia - Virginia Quilt Museum
Washington State "Women & Their Quilts: a Washington State Centennial Tribute," Nancyann Johanson Twelker, Foreward by Carter Houck; Pub the Patchwork Place (1988) Isbn 0-943574-51-x (OOP)
West Virginia - Canopy for Dreams: Historic Quilts
from the West Virginia State Museum Collection. Charleston, WV: West Virginia Division of
Culture and History, 1998(OOP).
West Virginia - West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers. Valentine, Fawn. Ohio University Press, 2000
Wisconsin
Quilts: Stories in the Stitches
A gorgeous visual sampling of quilts produced by Wisconsin women over the past two
centuries, featuring color photos of many privately held heirlooms. Produced in
association with the Wisconsin Quilt History Project, this book offers a rare and intimate
glimpse at these tangible pieces of our past.
DRESSING THE BED: QUILTS AND COVERLETS FROM THE
COLLECTIONS OF THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM. Donald Hoke. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Public
Museum ©1985. 65pp. (OOP)
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