Thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers have been saved by hundreds of public and private collections around the world, representing the work of thousands of community-based and independent scholars, digital humanists, and professionals in libraries, archives, and museums. The Quilt Index has made efforts to keep track of the projects and welcomes records from research and documentation projects, regardless of scope or size. No Alabama projects have yet joined the Quilt Index. We have collected the following information about their efforts.

If you have any corrections, updates, or want to join the Quilt Index, contact Beth Donaldson, donald20@msu.edu. 

Quilts made in Alabama have been documented by other projects. To see the quilts made in Alabama that are currently in the Quilt Index, click here.

Alabama Decorative Arts Survey
Documentation Dates: 1985-?

Alabama Quilt Documentation Project 
Documentation Dates: 1987-?
Records Housed At: Birmingham Museum of Art.
Number of documentation days held: 18
Parameters: statewide, cut-off date of 1945
Total Quilts: 3,000 (est.)

Alabama Quilt Book Project
Documentation Dates: 2003-2010
Number of documentation days held: 19
Records Housed At: Alabama Department of Archives and History?
Parameters: statewide, cut-off date of 1950
Total Quilts: 1470
Books: Huff, Mary Elizabeth Johnson and Carole Ann King. Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682-1950.University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2020.

Publications: Quilt History Bibliography