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Weaving Cloth and Marketing Nostalgia: Clinch Valley Blanket Mills, 1890-1950 Cedar Bluff, Virginia

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From Uncoverings 1994, Volume 15 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

1994

By: Wilson, Kathleen Curtis

Kathleen Curtis Wilson was curator of textiles at the Historic Crab Orchard Museum, Tazewell, Virginia before becoming the 1994 scholar-in-residence at the Virginia Center for the Humanities and Public Policy in Charlottesville. She studied handweaving at The Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and spent a decade running the Old Abingdon Weaver, Inc. textile mill where she produced textiles with antique looms and equip­ment. She lectures, writes, and curates textile exhibits.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncoverings volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 1994, Volume 15, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/13/.