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A Thread of Continuity: Quiltmaking in Wayne County, Ohio, Mennonite Churches, 1890s-1990s

1999
Rake, Valerie S.
United States
From Uncoverings 1999, Volume 20 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group
Valerie S. Rake holds bachelors and masters degrees in Women's Studies and is completing her Ph.D. in Women's History at the Ohio State University. Her dissertation research explores gender and the commodification of quiltmaking in Wayne County, Ohio. Her personal interest in quiltmaking and quilt history helped her decide to focus on quiltmaking as a way to study women with tra­ditional/conservative approaches to life.

​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 1999, Volume 20, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/41/.

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