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Connecticut Quilt Search
Criteria for documentation included:
- Quilts currently in Connecticut
- Quilts made in Connecticut
- Quilts made prior to 1950
- A physical analysis of the quilt
- An oral history
- A photographic image of the quilt
The Project's work included fundraising; a Quilt Gala; a quilt exhibition at the New England Quilt Museum and the Vermont Quilt Festival; and sponsorship of the 2006 American Quilt Study Group's Annual Seminar in Farmington, Connecticut. Quilts and Quiltmakers: Covering Connecticut (2001, Schiffer Book for Collectors an Designers) is the culmination of CQSP's 10 years of documentation and research of pre-1950 quilts made in the state. It showcases more than 145 quilts accompanied by the histories of the quiltmakers. They range from a signed and dated pre-Revolutionary War medallion quilt from Stonington to a Grandmother's Flower Garden made by one of Connecticut's most prolific 20th-century quiltmakers.
The Connecticut Quilt Search Project donated their extensive documentation forms, database, slides, and other items connected to its project to the Connecticut Historical Society. Proceeds from the successful sales of the book were used to establish an endowment fund, the Connecticut Quilt Registry Legacy Fund in the Main Street Community Foundation, to provide maintenance and upkeep of this archive.
Project description provided by the Connecticut Quilt Search.
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Quilt Title
Artist Name Contributer
1800 Location, Place
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Quilt Size: 61 inches x 61 inches
Fabrics: Cotton, Geometric, Novelty, Solid/plain
Construction: Machine Piecing
Quilting Techniques: Machine quilting
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