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On the Cutting Edge Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions: Symposium Papers

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1994

By: Lasansky, Jeannette, Union County Historical Society

On the Cutting Edge, Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions: Symposium Papers; 1994

Front Matter, Acknowledgements, Contents; Jeannette Lasansky
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Electra Havemeyer Webb and Shelburne's Quilt Collection by Celia Oliver
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The Evolution of the Quilt Collection at the DAR Musuem by Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn
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Quilted Ballots, Political and Campaign Textiles by Julie Powell
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Rags Into Riches, The Collecting of Textiles and Needlework in Southeastern Pennsylvania by Richard and Rosemary Machmer
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All In and All Done? The Pennsylvania Vendue by Alan G. Keyser
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Fabric and the Amish Quilt, Tradition, Sources and Change by Eve Wheatcroft Granick
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Quiltmaking on Chesapeake Plantations by Gloria Seaman Allen
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Characteristics of Signed New Jersey Quilts 1837-1867 by Rita Erickson and Barbara Schaffer
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Quilt Design Explosion of the Great Depression by Merikay Waldvogel
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Feed, Flour, Tobacco and Other Sacks by Pat Nickols
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The Hispanic Tradition of Quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico by Dorothy R. Zopf
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Myth and Reality in Craft Tradition, Were Blacksmiths Really Muscle Bound? Were Basketmakers Gypsies? Were Thirteen Quilts in the Dowry Chest? by Jeannette Lasansky
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Index by Jeannette Lasansky
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Back Cover:
On the Cutting Edge; Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions examines the collecting attitudes of an early quilt enthusiast, Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of the Shelburne Museum as well as that of a venerable national museum - the DAR. Other authors discuss collecting from personal, contemporary, and topical points of view: political textiles and memorablia; textiles, related tools, and sewing equipment from southeastern Pennsylvania and the development of the Eastern quilt market. The Pennsylvania vendue or auction - a major source for early as well as contemporary collectors - is explored from an historical point of view.

Quiltmaking traditions across the nation are examined: on Chesapeake Bay plantations from 1794-1846 as revealed in diaries, slave narratives, and existing material culture; signature quilt traditions and their evolution in New Jersey from 1937-1967; Amish quilt fabrics and how they reflect tradition, adaptation, and change; and 29th-century salvage quilt attitudes as mirrored in Hispanic quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico. Also examined are the design explosion in Depression-era quilts, and the extensive use of sack material in clothing construction and quiltmaking in that period.

Last, the myth versus reality of various craft traditions is discussed. "Were blacksmiths really muscle-bound?" ilustrates how our 20th-century mindset is influenced by prominent early collectors, exhibitions, and publications among other things.

Authors include Gloria Seaman Allen, Rita Erickson and Barbara Schaffer, Eve Wheatcroft Granick, Alan G. Keyser, Jeannette Lasansky, Richard and Rosemarie Machmer, Pat Nickols, Celia Oliver, Julie Powell, Nancy Gibson Tuckhorn, Merikay Waldvogel, and Dorothy Zopf.