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Better Choose Me: Addictions to Tobacco, Collecting, and Quilting, 1880-1920

2000
Abrahams, Ethel Ewert; Pannabecker, Rachel K.
United States
From Uncoverings 2000, Volume 21 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Ethel Ewert Abrahams holds a B.A. in printmaking and a M.A. in art education. She has taught art at the college level and authored publications including Frakturmalen und Schonschreiben, a book on Mennonite Fraktur art and penmanship. Ethel is also a quiltmaker and quilt lecturer and curated the traveling exhibit Better Choose Me: Collecting and Creating with Tobacco Fabric Novelties, 1880-1920.

Rachel K. Pannabecker is director of Kauffman Museum and assistant professor of social science at Bethel College in Kansas. She earned her Ph.D. in textiles and clothing and her research on Native American ribbonwork and on fashion theories appears in the Clothing and Tex­tiles Research Journal. Rachel quilts with The Quilters of First Menno­nite Church, McPherson, Kansas.

​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 2000, Volume 21, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/40/.

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