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Marketing Quilt Kits in the 1920s and 1930s

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From Uncoverings 1995, Volume 16 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

1995

By: Cord, Xenia E. 

Xenia E. Cord is owner of Legacy Quilts, a brokerage/sales busi­ness focused on antique quilts, and an officer in JAX Quilt Produc­tions, Inc. which sponsors the annual Quilt America! in Indianapo­lis. She has an M.A. degree in folklore and additional academic work in American studies. She writes and lectures on quilt history and folk cultures and describes herself as an inveterate vintage tex­tile collector.

​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 1995, Volume 16, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/12/.