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Cheerful and Loving Persistence: Two Historical Quaker Quilts

2007
Robare, Mary Horton
United States
From Uncoverings 2007, Volume 28 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Mary Holton Robare is an independent researcher from Winchester, Virginia. A Broadway performer throughout the 1980s, she has extensive background as a dance instructor and choreographer including ten years at Shenandoah University, Winchester, Virginia, where she was an Adjunct Assistant Professor. Researching and writing about historical Quaker quilts combines many of her interests. Professional theater work fostered a deep appreciation of craft and design. She has written two books of annotated, historic transcriptions and articles including "The Apple Pie Ridge Star;' for Blanket Statements. Her paper, "Quaker Networks Revealed in Quilts," was published in the Proceedings of the Textile History Forum 2007. Currently, she is a guest cura­tor for an exhibition of "Quilts and Quaker Heritage," scheduled for May 3-September 22, 2008, at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

​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 2007, Volume 28, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/33/.

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