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Quilters' Journal, No. 15, Volume 4, Issue 1, Spring 1981

March 1981

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

Quilter's Journal; Spring 1981; Vol. 4, No. 1
Editor: Joyce Gross
Publisher: Joyce Gross
Research Assistant: Winifred Reddall
Contributors: Cuesta Benberry, Molly Favour, Elizabeth Mulholland
Circulation Manager: Florence P. Smith

Front Matter, by Joyce Gross
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Lillian Walker by Joyce Gross
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Storrowton by Joyce Gross
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Doing Research - Part II by Sally Garroutte
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Age of Heirloom Quilts by Florence Peto
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Hatfield-McCoy "Victory Quilt" by Cuesta Benberry
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Mississippi River Trip by Jean J. Street
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Letters to the Editor, Joyce Gross
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What's Doing in Kansas
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Found: Missing Stearns and Foster pattern by Cuesta Benberry
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Even Silk is Adulterated by Barbara Brackman
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Little Women Quilt
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Dismemberment of Poland
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Museum
Winedale Quilt Collection
University of Texas at Austin, Briscoe Center for American History

Winedale Quilt Collection

University of Texas at Austin, Briscoe Center for American History

Austin; Texas; United States

The Briscoe Center entered data and digital images for approximately 120 traditional American quilts from its Winedale Quilt collection and continues to add records for the other quilts from its collection.

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Front matter

Gross, Joyce

Front matter

Gross, Joyce

March; 1981

Table of Contents and Introduction

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Lillian Walker

Gross, Joyce

Lillian Walker

Gross, Joyce

March; 1981

From Quilters' Journal, Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 1981. Biography of Fairfield, Iowa quiltmaker.

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Storrowton

Gross, Joyce

Storrowton

Gross, Joyce

March; 1981

The First National Quilt Contest

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Doing Research - Part II

Garoutte, Sally

Doing Research - Part II

Garoutte, Sally

March; 1981

Advise on how to write a scholarly paper.

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Age of Heirloom Quilts

Peto, Florence

Age of Heirloom Quilts

Peto, Florence

March; 1981

Tips on dating quilts.

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Hatfield-McCoy "Victory Quilt"

Benberry, Cuesta

Hatfield-McCoy "Victory Quilt"

Benberry, Cuesta

March; 1981

Reprint of a photo in Life Magazine, May 22, 1944.

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Mississippi River Trip

Street, Jean J.

Mississippi River Trip

Street, Jean J.

March; 1981

A Sunburst quilt in an Antebellum home.

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Letters to the Editors

Gross, Joyce

Letters to the Editors

Gross, Joyce

March; 1981

Letters to the Editors

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What's Doing in Kansas

Quilters' Journal

What's Doing in Kansas

Quilters' Journal

March; 1981

Also Classifieds and QJ notices.

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Found: Missing Stearns & Foster patter...

Benberry, Cuesta

Found: Missing Stearns & Foster pattern

Benberry, Cuesta

March; 1981

Story of a rare Mountain Mist batting wrapper.

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Even Silk is Adulterated

Brackman, Barbara

Even Silk is Adulterated

Brackman, Barbara

March; 1981

A transcript from an article published in 1896 in the Maine Farmer.

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Little Women Quilt

Quilters' Journal

Little Women Quilt

Quilters' Journal

March; 1; 1981

Origins of Marion Cheever Whitesides quilt pattern.

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Dismemberment of Poland

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Dismemberment of Poland

Quilters' Journal

March; 1981

Spotlight on a textile in the DAR museum.

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Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, ...

McCrady, Kathleen

Joyce Gross Quilt History Collection, 2008-2013

McCrady, Kathleen

March; 1981

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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Cuesta Benberry Quilt and Ephemera Col...

Worrall, Mary

Cuesta Benberry Quilt and Ephemera Collection

Worrall, Mary

2008

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.

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Mountain Mist

Mountain Mist/Stearns & Foster Collection

Mountain Mist

August; 24; 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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