2012

Comstock, Gloria Craft

United States

From Uncoverings 2012, Volume 33 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

Gloria Craft Comstock holds degrees from the University of Maine and SUNY Binghamton, New York. She and her husband, Rick, are antique collectors and former dealers. After retiring from a 35-year career as a social worker, Gloria began making reproductions of antique quilts, studying their history and their makers. In 2012, she graduated with a master's degree in history of textiles with an emphasis on quilt studies from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

​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 2012, Volume 33, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/10/.