Waldvogel, Merikay
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Merikay Waldovogel and Barbara Brackman researched the Sears National Quilt Contest. Sears Roebuck & Co. with headquarters in Chicago was a financial backer of the 1933 World’s Fair, known as The Century of Progress Exposition. To drum up interest in the Fair nationwide, Sears announced a national quilt contest in January 1933 with prizes totaling $7500.
Michigan State University Museum
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
The Michigan State University Museum's collection of African-American quilts grew out of an effort begun in 1985 to aggressively collect information on African-American quilting history in the state.
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
A 2011 contest sponsored by the Quilt Alliance.
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Champions of all quilts, Ardis and Robert James' quilts were the first collected by the Internationl Quilt Museum
Miller, Lynn Evans
Arizona, United States
Quilts were made in 2012 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Arizona's statehood.
American Folklife Center
Washington, D.C., United States
The quilts showcased here are drawn from the American Folklife Center's Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978).
Lyons, Judy
Milton, Ontario, Canada
In 1976, Canada Packers used a travelling collection of quilts as a goodwill gesture to the agricultural community by recognizing quilting as a traditional and continuing craft.
Michigan State University Museum
Detroit, Michigan, United States
The Clarke Family quilt collection, given to Michigan State University Museum in 1986 by Dr. Harriet A. Clarke and her brother, George M. Clarke, includes forty-five quilts and quilt tops completed between 1926 and 1946 by Bozena Vilhemina Clarke, her daughter Laura May Clarke, and daughter-in-law Emilie Ann Clarke.
Donaldson, Beth
United States
During the national emegency that is Covid-19, quilters have mounted a heroic effort to supply masks to essential workers, family members, and friends all over the United States.
Worrall, Mary
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Cuesta Benberry was one of the twentieth-century's pioneers of research on American quiltmaking and she was the pioneer of research on African American quiltmaking. This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Worrall, Mary
New York, New York, United States
The Deborah Harding Collection at the Michigan State University Museum consists of twelve redwork quilts, embroidered pieces, research, and related ephemera.
Salser, Susan
Detroit, Michigan, United States
With its Quilt Club Corner column, association of registered members, sponsorship of an annual quilt show, and underwriting of a quilting program on WWJ-radio, The Detroit News played a major role in quilting in the 1930s.
Worrall, Mary
Birmingham, Michigan, United States
A quilt collection donated to the Michigan State University Museum and made by four generations of a Oakland County Michigan family.
Golden, Colorado, United States
The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum in Golden, Colorado, first opened its doors in 1990 thanks to founder Eugenia Mitchell. The museum currently has 340 quilts in its collection.
Quilt Alliance
United States
A contest sponsored by the Quilt Alliance in 2014.
MacDowell, Marsha
Michigan, United States
Throughout history, piecing, appliquéing, and quilting techniques have been employed by individuals to construct and decorate textiles for both ceremonial and everyday uses. Michigan State University Museum's collections hold many historical and contemporary examples of textiles that incorporate these techniques.
Finley, Janet E.
Lakewood, Colorado, United States
Janet Finley spent a decade acquiring photographs of every day life that had a quilt in them.
-- All images published with permission of the publisher, excerpted from Janet E. Finley, Quilts in EveryDay Life 1855-1955 (Schiffer Publishing, 2012).
International Quilt Museum
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Jonathan Holstein was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1979.
McCrady, Kathleen
Austin, Texas, United States
Joyce Gross’ collection is housed in the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Her collection includes more than 200 quilts and quilt tops. Her related research materials, include books, journals, exhibit catalogs, subject and biographical files, patterns and kits, visual materials, and ephemera documenting twentieth-century quilting history.
McCrady, Kathleen
Austin, Texas, United States
Kathleen McCrady’s collection is housed in the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. It currently contains 30 quilts and 20 quilt tops; many of these quilts are family quilts or were made by Kathleen. Others are ones she collected for personal enjoyment or as instructional tools in her Quilt History Study Hall (see below). Mrs. McCrady plans to donate an additional 9 quilts, probably this month (June, 2011). The collection also contains fabric swatches, quilt blocks, fabric remnants, and cotton sacks.
Worrall, Mary
Milford, Michigan, United States
Kitty Clark Cole has donated 36 quilts to the Michigan State University Museum. This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Benberry, Cuesta
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
The Ladies Art Company of St. Louis, Missouri was the earliest quilt pattern company to publish quilt patterns in large quantities and design varieties. Officially established in 1889 (although the family gave a date of c1874 for the founding) Ladies Art Company continued to publish patterns until the 1970s. This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Washington, D.C., United States
This collection is an archival collection from the American Folklife Center. The "All-American Quilt Contest" (1992-1996) was sponsored by Coming Home, a division of Lands' End, and Good Housekeeping.
Roberts, Elise Schebler
Iowa, United States
Elise Schebler Roberts describes the quilting life of Mary Barton, an Iowa Quilt Collector. Roberts describes Barton as being enthusiastic, preserving, detailed and ahead of her time.
Worrall, Mary
Flushing, Michigan, United States
During the period between the quilting revivals of the 1940s and the 1970s, Mary Schafer of Flushing, Michigan emerged as an important quiltmaker, historian, and collector in American quilt studies. This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Swanson, Lynne
Southfield, Michigan, United States
Merry's collection is composed of primarily mid- to late-19th century quilts, mostly anonymously produced.This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Migrant Quilt Project
Arizona, United States
A grassroots, collaborative effort of artists, quiltmakers, and activists to express compassion for migrants from Mexico and Central America who died in the Southern Arizona deserts.
Minnesota Quilt Project
Minnesota, United States
Minnesota Quilt Stories
Winedale Quilt Collection
Austin, Texas, United States
Museum of Texas Tech University
Lubbock, Texas, United States
Mountain Mist
Michigan, United States
In 1928, the Stearns & Foster Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, repackaged its cotton batting and became a potent force in promoting quilts. Through national advertising and company sponsored quilt exhibits, the firm increased sales of Mountain Mist batting and also created a demand for its wrapper patterns.
MacDowell, Marsha
Michigan, United States
Native quilters in the Hawaiian Islands and on the North American continent have long used colors and designs distinctly their own to make quilts which function in ways both similar to other cultural groups as well as in ways that have specific tribal or pan-Indian meanings.This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Paducah, Kentucky, United States
Bill Schroeder and Klaudeen Hansen created The Oh Wow! Miniature Quilt Collection. These quilts are made to scale and were donated to the National Quilt Museum.
Roy, Gerald E.
Paducah, Kentucky, United States
Paul D. Pilgrim, collector and quiltmaker, brought together old forgotten quilt blocks with new contemporary blocks in his quilts. is collection was donated to the National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.
Worrall, Mary
Michigan, United States
The Quilt Treasures Project features individuals who helped push the 20th Century Quilt Revival forward.
Cross, Mary Bywater
Oregon, United States
These quilts were documented by Mary Bywater Cross during her research for the book, Treasures in the Trunk, Quilts of the Oregon Trail (Rutledge Hill Press, 1993).
Stoddard, Patricia Ormsby
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Ralli quilts are full of color, patterns and energy. They are made of cotton scraps and are used to cover cots. Rallis help those not in the ralli making culture understand that community and culture. This collection is housed in the Michigan State University Museum.
Golden, Colorado, United States
Quilts from the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum's Rooted in Tradition collection.
Drewal, Henry John
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
A presentation of materials on Siddi quilts and quiltmakers who are African descendants living in Northern Karnataka, India.
Cromwell, Traci
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
The Pottinger Quilt Collection was developed in the 1970s and 1980s by David Pottinger, a Michigan based plastics manufacturer whose interest in Amish quilts was so great he eventually moved to the tiny town of Honeyville in northern Indiana to operate the Honeyville General Store.
Beth Donaldson
Detroit, Michigan, United States
The story of two sisters reunited after 33 years by the Detroit News Quilt Show, 1933.
Gross, Joyce
Austin, Texas, United States
A complete set of Joyce Gross' Quilters Journal, thirty-one issues, 1977-1987.
Marsha MacDowell
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Wilene Smith
Wichita, Kansas, United States
Research and collecting is a continuous and exciting road of discovery. No matter how long a person has collected material or how much material has been accumulated, there's always something new to discover.
