Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers

Valued as practical household items, admired as works of painstaking artistic creation, cherished as family heirlooms, our quilts also tell much about who we are, how we live, and what we believe. The 103 quilts featured here (all drawn from the Nebraska Quilt Project survey) exemplify more than a century and a quarter of quilt making, from the territorial period to the 1980s. The descriptions of the patterns, materials, and quilt making techniques are rounded out with biographical sketches of the quilt makers - those women, children, and even men whose stories are as varied as the quilts they made.Quilt makers, quilt collectors, and those who simply admire quilts will treasure this compendium of Nebraska's quilt making traditions. 'Quilt makers will want to add this book to their collections for its historical material and large number of quilt images that they can use as a resource. And material culturalists should have a field day with the work, whether in Nebraska or elsewhere' - Louise O. Townsend, managing editor of "Quilter's Newsletter Magazine". 'This book results from one of the best-designed of the state and regional quilt survey projects. It gives an accurate overview of the state's quilt making traditions, and the examples of quilts reflect various ethnic groups and also migration routes from eastern states. The work is directed to quilt makers, quilt researchers, quilt-book collectors, and others interested in local history and culture, women's history, and folk art' - Laurel Horton, editor of "Uncoverings".