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Quilters' Journal, No. 14, Volume 3, Issue 4, Winter 1980

December 1980

Editor(s): Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

Quilters' Journal; Winter 1981; Vol. 3, Issue 4

Pine Hawkes Eisfeller by Joyce Gross
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From Your Editor, Table of Contents
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Order Number 11 by Barbara Brackman, Mary Schafer Quilts on Exhibit
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Queen With a Quilt, Frog in Your Tea? by Joyce Gross
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Stearns & Foster by Joyce Gross
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She Wrote Their Names in Calico by Wyn Reddall
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Three Generations of Quilt-Makers by Bets Miller Ramsey
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On the Book Shelf, Help Wanted
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Quilters' Hall of Fame by Ellen Dykes
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American Quilt Shows: A Tapestry of Lives by Victoria Sears
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Textile Conservation Workshop by Nancy Sloper
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The Patchwork Quilt of 1850
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Pine Hawkes Eisfeller

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

Biography of an award winning quiltmaker.

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From Your Editor, Table of Contents

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

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Order Number 11, Mary Schafer Quilts on Exhibit

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

A review of the pattern name Order Number 11.

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Queen With a Quilt, Frog in Your Tea?

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

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Stearns & Foster

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

Including an article of a quilt display at the J. L. Hudson Department store in Detroit.

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She Wrote Their Names in Calico

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

Discussion of quilts with pieced letters.

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Three Generations of Quilt-Makers

Quilter's Journal, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

Quilts by Eliz Borders Miller, her daughters and granddaughters.

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On the Book Shelf, Help Wanted

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

Review of A Quilter's Album of Blocks & Patterns by Jinny Beyer. Pat Cox, Adele Ingraham, and Sue McCarter request help with quilt research.

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Quilters' Hall of Fame

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

A biography of Ann Orr.

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American Quilt Shows: A Tapestry of Lives

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

A review of the exhibit "American Quilts, A Handmade Legacy" at the Oakland Museum, CA.

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Textile Conservation Workshop

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

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The Patchwork Quilt of 1850

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at The University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

1980

Illustration from the cover of Needlecraft, December 1934

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Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

University of Texas at Austin

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.

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Mary Schafer Quilt and Ephemera Collection

Michigan State University Museum

2001

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.

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Mountain Mist/Stearns & Foster Collection

Michigan State University Museum

2021

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.

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