The following is a partial list of publications and presentations which are about the Quilt Index or in which the Quilt Index has been cited. We welcome additions to this list.

Publications on the Quilt Index
Ackerman-Haywood, J. 2018. "The Quilt Index.” QuiltFolk, Issue 8, pp. 167-169.

Davis, Nikki. 2012. “Material Culture and the rise of quilt indexing,” The Indexer, Vol. 30:2, pp 80-84.

Fuchs, E. 2013. "The Quilt Index”, Quiltmania. 21 July, pp 86-87. https://my.modafabrics.com/node/26235. Accessed 15 August 2020.

Hart, N. 2019. "Quilts and Buried Bodies: How to Go Crazy Researching Quilts." Blanket Statements. Quarterly News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group. Issue 139 (Summer), pp. 10-12.

Jackson, Jason Baird and Marsha MacDowell, 2016. “Ethnography, Museums, and the Digital Age” in Seeman, Hall, and Dewhurst, eds, Folklife and Museums: 21st Century Perspectives. Rowan and Littlefield Press.

MacDowell, Marsha. 2008. “The Quilt Index Expands.” Pieces of Time: A Quilt and Textile History Magazine Vol. 3, No. 1 (April), pp. 28-29.

MacDowell, Marsha. 2011. “New Directions in Creating and Using Folklife Collections in the United States.” Cultural Heritage (Guangdong, China: Institute of Chinese Intangible Heritage, Sun Yat-sen University), No. 1, 2011, pp.104-107.

MacDowell, Marsha, Beth Donaldson, and Mary Worrall, 2013. “The Quilt Index Celebrates a Tenth Anniversary!” Quilters Newsletter Magazine, December/January.

MacDowell, Marsha, Beth Donaldson, and Mary Worrall, 2014. “The Stories that Quilts Tell Us: Quilts, Quilt Studies, and the Quilt Index at the Michigan State University Museum” Handi Crafts.

MacDowell, Marsha, Mary Worrall, Beth Donaldson, Dean Rehberger, and Alicia Sheill. 2017. "The Quilt Index: An Evolving Resource for Research and Education." Blanket Statements. Quarterly News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group. Issue 127, (Winter 2016-2017), pp. 7-9.

MacDowell, Marsha, Mary Worrall, Amanda Sikarskie, and Justine Richardson. 2011. “The Quilt Index: From Preservation and Access to Co-Creation of Knowledge.” New Directions in Folklore, Quiltmakers in the Digital Age Special Issue. Vol. 9, No. 1, pp 8-40. http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ndif/index

MacDowell, Marsha and Olivia Furman. 2023. “The Black Diaspora Quilt History Project: A Resource for Inclusive Preservation, Research, and Teaching,” Journal of Folklore and Education, Vol 10, issue 1. https://jfepublications.org/journal/vol-10-1/

Meier, Allison. 2017. "An Important Archive of New York Quilt History Is Being Digitized", December 20, 2017. Hyperallergic, https://hyperallergic.com/416606/new-york-quilt-project-afam/. Accessed December 26, 2020.

Richardson, Justine, Dean Rehberger, Marsha MacDowell, Amanda Sikarskie, and Mary Worrall. 2009. The Quilt Index Goes 2.0: A Fiberspace Case Study, in J. Trant and D. Bearman (eds). Museums and the Web 2009: Proceedings. Toronto: Archives & Museum Informatics. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2009/papers/macdowell/macdowell.html

Richardson, Justine, Michael Fegan, Mark Kornbluh and Marsha MacDowell. 2004. Bits & Bolts to Bits & Bytes: The Quilt Index Online Repository and Distributed Archival Management System. Museums and the Web Online Conference, Washington, DC, April.

Sikarskie, Amanda Grace. 2013. “Facebook and the Co-creation of Knowledge”, pp. 216-221, in Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, eds. Writing History in the Digital Age, Digital Humanities Series, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv65sx57.23; https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv65sx57.23

Sikarskie, Amanda Grace. 2016. Textile Collections: Preservation, Access, Curation, and Interpretation in the Digital Age. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers with the American Association for State and Local History. [use the Quilt Index as a case model for one chapter]

Worrall, Mary, Marsha MacDowell, and Justine Richardson. 2008. The Quilt Index: Communicating Stories in the Stitches. Proceedings of the Textile Society of America, Biennial Symposium. Hawaii. Paper 112. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/112.

Citations to the Quilt Index
Beebe, William B. 2016. Intimate Parallels: The Art, History, and Activism of Civil War-Era Women's Quilt Art. Master's thesis, Harvard Extension School. Permanent link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33797287

MacDowell, Marsha, Clare Luz, and Beth Donaldson. 2016. Quilts and Health. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IN. 2018.

MacDowell, Marsha and Aleia Brown. 2016. Ubuntutu: Life Legacies of Peace and Action: Quilt Tributes to Desmond and Leah Tutu. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University and the Desmond and Leah Tutu Foundation.

MacDowell, Marsha, Lynne Swanson, Mary Worrall, and Beth Donaldson. 2016. Quilts and Human Rights. MacDowell, Marsha and Lynne Swanson, Mary Worrall, and Beth Donaldson. University of Nebraska Press.

MacDowell, Marsha and Lijun Zhang (eds). 2016. Quilts of Southwest China. Nanning, China: Guangxi Nationalities Museum. [NOTE: It is bilingual in Chinese and English]

MacDowell, Marsha and Carolyn Mazloomi, eds. 2014. Conscience of the Spirit: The Legacy of Nelson Mandela, Tributes by American and South African Quilt Artists. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University.

Presentations on the Quilt Index
Donaldson, Beth. 2012. Newspapers: A Mecca for Quilt Clubs in the 1930s. Round Table Discussion, American Quilt Study Group Seminar, Lincoln, Nebraska. October 5.

Donaldson, Beth. 2015. Quiltmaking in Detroit in the 1930s. American Quilt Study Group Seminar, Indianapolis, Indiana. September 10.

Donaldson, Beth. 2019. The Quilt Index. American Quilt Study Group Seminar, Lincoln, Nebraska. October 11.

Jackson, Jason Baird and Marsha MacDowell. 2015. “Digital Practices in Museum-Based Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Research: North American Examples.” Paper presented at the International Forum on Cultural Heritage Inheritance and Digital Safeguarding, Institute of Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sun Yat-Sun University. Guangzhou, China. December 4-6.

MacDowell, Marsha. 2010.The Quilt Index: Digging Into and Broadening Content, Current Challenges and Future Opportunities, Closing Address, American Quilt Study Group Seminar, Bloomington, Minnesota, October 17.

MacDowell, Marsha. 2015. “The International Quilt Index,” CCDCIE Suzhou, China "China Suzhou Cultural and Creative Design Industry Trade Fair - International Handmade Patchwork Art Exhibition" (referred to as "Suzhou Chong International Quilt Art Fair") announce that this event will be held in the Suzhou International Expo Center from April 10-12.

MacDowell, Marsha. 2015. “Cultivating Bi-National Connections Through Collections-Focused, Project-Based Inquiry on Intangible Cultural Heritage,” China/US Forum on Folklore, ICH, and Museums: Connecting the Intangible to the Tangible,” Guiyang, China, April.

MacDowell, Marsha and Mary Worrall. 2009. The Quilt Index: Documenting and Accessing an American Art, Poster Session, College Art Association. Los Angeles.

MacDowell, Marsha, Mary Worrall, Patricia Crews, Jennifer Gilbert, and Justine Richardson. Stitching Data: The Quilt Index as a National Model for Online Thematic Collections Session. 2006. American Association of Museums Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 29.

Rehberger, Dean.  2010. Corporate Authorship and the Classification of Quilts. Imaging without Boundaries: Exploring the Science, Technology, and Applications of Imaging and Visualization, Beckman Center, University of Illinois, Champaign IL, October 14-15.

Rehberger, Dean. 2012. Quilt Work in the Digital Humanities. Digital Heritage Retreat, Lincoln, NE. (Invited presentation.) November 2.

Richardson, Justine, Dean Rehberger, Marsha MacDowell, Amanda Sikarskie, and Mary Worrall. 2009. The Quilt Index Goes 2.0: A Fiberspace Case Study. 2009. Museums and the Web 2009, April 16.

Richardson, Justine, Michael Fegan, Mark Kornbluh and Marsha MacDowell. 2004. Bits & Bolts to Bits & Bytes: The Quilt Index Online Repository and Distributed Archival Management System. Museums and the Web Online Conference Proceedings, Washington, D.C. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2004/papers/richardson/richardson.html

Sikarskie, Amanda. 2010. The Quilt Index: Future Directions. Poster Presentation, American Quilt Study Group Seminar, Bloomington, Minnesota, October 14-17.

Watrall, Ethan. 2013. Big Data, Small Stories: Community, Collaboration, & User experience in the Age of Digital Cultural Heritage, South by Southwest.

Watrall, Ethan. 2012. Big Data, Small Stories: Community, Collaboration, & User experience in the Age of Digital Cultural Heritage, South by Southwest.

Worrall, Mary. 2006. Piecing History: Quilt Documentation and the Quilt Index, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL.

Worrall, Mary. 2006. Textiles and Technology: The Quilt Index as a National Model for Online Thematic Collections, Michigan Museums Association, Flint, MI.

Worrall, Mary. 2008. Documenting Quilting Traditions: Sharing Stories and Stitches, Michigan Oral History Association.

Worrall, Mary. 2010. The Quilt Index: On-Line Tool for Education and Research. Round Table Discussion, American Quilt Study Group Seminar, Bloomington, Minnesota, October 17.

Worrall, Mary. 2013. The Quilt Index. Roundtable Discussion, American Quilt Study Group Seminar.

Worrall, Mary. 2015. Untapping the Records and Resources of the Quilt Index. Not Fade Away conference of the Quilt Alliance.

Worrall, Mary. 2015. Using the Family Tree to Piece Together the Story of a Quilt. Panel presentation at Not Fade Away of the Quilt Alliance.

Worrall, Mary. 2014. The Quilt Index: A Thematic Material Culture Digital Repository of Collections, Folklore, and Education. American Folklore Society Annual Meeting.

Worrall, Mary. 2014. The Quilt Index: Documentation in a Digital Age. American Quilt Study Group Seminar.

Worrall, Mary, MacDowell, Marsha and Sikarskie, Amanda. 2015. Quilt Documentation and The Quilt Index. Presentation. Network Detroit: Digital Humanities Theory and Practice Conference. Lawrence Technology University.