Royal Alberta Museum
Alberta, Canada
The Western Canadian History Program at the Royal Alberta Museum initiated the Alberta Quilt Project in 2009 to document both heritage quilts and contemporary quilts from around the province in order to capture more completely Alberta's quilting history.
Library of Congress
United States
The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress has been a valuable consultant throughout the development of the Quilt Index. Quilts from the AFC's online project Quilts and Quiltmaking in America, 1978-1996 are now indexed on this site.
Arizona, United States
In 1986 the Arizona Quilt Project was formed. Over a two year period 2,774 quilts were documented. The Arizona Quilt Project produced an educational program called Quilt-ED, produced a video Quilts: Pieces of Time, and published the book Grand Endeavors: Vintage Arizona Quilts and their Makers.
White Bluffs Quilt Museum
Washington, United States
White Bluffs Quilt Museum collects quilts of the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection is particularly strong in early 1900 quilts from farmers, farm related workers, and later, Hanford Nuclear Plant workers who settled the Columbia River Basin.
Connecticut, United States
Beginning in 1991, The Connecticut Quilt Search Project documented over 3,000 quilts over a six year period. The Project culminated in 2002 with the publication of Quilts and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut. The original archives are held in the library of The Connecticut Historical Society.
Sunshine State Quilters Association
Florida, United States
The Florida Quilt Project ran from 2009 through 2012 to record quilts that were found in Florida. The Sunshine State Quilters Association helped fund Quilt Discovery Days and sponsored the data entry of records from those events.
Black Diaspora Quilt History Project; Michigan Quilt Project
Michigan, United States
Great Lakes African American Quilters' Network is a regional African American network dedicated to serving the community through quilting and quilt education.
State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa, United States
The State Historical Society of Iowa houses the Mary A. Barton Collection, documenting the creation of quilts from 1840-1920. SHSI also holds documentation for over 2500 quilts registered with the Iowa Quilt Research Project.
Kansas State Historical Society
Kansas, United States
The Kansas Quilt Project recorded more than 12,000 quilts at 72 Quilt Discovery Days. The KQP invited Kansans to bring quilts made all over the country, old and new, with a goal of documenting late 20th-century quiltmaking activities as well as giving us a window into the past.
Lebanon Quilters Guild
Pennsylvania, United States
The Lebanon County Quilt Documentation Project is an educational and historical outreach of the Lebanon Quilters Guild. We hope to preserve the county’s rich quilting history by documenting older (pre-1970) quilts, quilt tops, and comforters currently in the county or any pre-1970 quilt, top, or comforter made in Lebanon County regardless of its current location.
The NAMES Project Foundation
Georgia, United States
In June of 1987, the AIDS Memorial Quilt began when a small group of strangers gathered to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to help people understand the devastating impact of the disease.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Nebraska, United States
The Nebraska Quilt Project (NQP) began in 1987 and resulted in the registration of over 3,000 quiltmakers and almost 5,000 quilts made in Nebraska or brought to the state by homesteaders or pioneers before the 1920s.
American Folk Art Museum
New York, United States
In 1985, the American Folk Art Museum launched the New York Quilt Project to document New York’s rich quilt legacy. This mammoth undertaking recorded 6000 quilts in 45 quilt documentation days held throughout the state.
North Carolina Museum of History
North Carolina, United States
The North Carolina Museum of History houses the archives of the North Carolina Quilt Project (NCQP). Concentrating on quilts made before 1976, the NCQP documented more than 10,000 quilts in 76 documentation days in 1985 and 1986.
Willamette Heritage Center in Salem
Oregon, United States
The Oregon Quilt Project (OQP) is dedicated to documenting, collecting and preserving information about the quilts and quilt makers of Oregon, past and present. Quilts recorded have been from public and private collections.
North Carolina, United States
The Quilt Alliance is a nonprofit organization to document, preserve and share the rich art and history of quilts and quiltmakers. Since 2006 the Alliance has held a small quilt contest and auction aimed at documenting the work of today's quiltmakers while providing an important annual revenue stream to support the Alliance.
Michigan State University
Michigan, United States
The Quilts and Health project is engaged in documenting images and stories of quilts related to personal well-being, health education, patient advocacy, memorialization of victims of illnesses, and/or health-related fundraising.
Michigan State University
United States
Quilts have been used to demonstrate solidarity, mark important events, provide vehicles for the expression of feelings and memories about human rights violations, and engage individuals in actions that will solve human rights issues.
Michigan State University
Michigan, United States
The Signature Quilt Project began in 2003 and documented a series of signature quilts. In 2009, with the support of the Salser Foundation, the SQP became the pilot project to test new IMLS-funded tools for individual quilt submissions to the Quilt Index.