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Nancy Riddick's Quilts: Autobiographical Statements

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From Uncoverings 1996, Volume 17 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

1996

By: Gunkel, Cassandra Stancil

Cassandra Stancil Gunkel has a Ph.D. in folklore and folklife and is cur­rently a postdoctoral Mellon Fellow at Bryn Mawr College, pursuing research on African American quilters. She co-founded the South Eastern Pennsylvania African American Quilt Project to document historic and contemporary quilts and quilters. She calls her lifelong interest in quilts and handmade objects a birthright-women in her family have been spinning, crocheting, quilting, and sewing for at least six generations.