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Making Critical Connections in Quilt Scholarship

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

1995

By: Elsley, Judy

Judy Eisley is an associate professor of English at Weber State Uni­versity in Ogden, Utah. Her Ph.D. dissertation explored quilts as speaking texts, and most of her writing about quilts has focused on quilts in literature. She co-edited Quilt Culture: Tracing the Pattern, published by the University of Missouri Press in 1994, a book of academic essays about quilt-as-metaphor.

​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/.