Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers [Hardcover]

Patricia Cox Crews (Editor), Ronald C. Naugle (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1991

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 quiltmaking, from the territorial period to the 1980s. The descriptions of the patterns, materials, and quiltmaking techniques are rounded out with biographical sketches of the quiltmakers—women, children, and men whose stories are as varied as the quilts they made. Quiltmakers, quilt collectors, and those who simply admire quilts will treasure this compendium of Nebraska’s quiltmaking traditions.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Excessively sober writing here does not suppress a wealth of social history unearthed by a five-year effort to catalogue and preserve a state's heritage in quilts. Favoring representativeness over aesthetics, the Nebraska Quilt Project committee presents styles from all periods of local history, with descriptions of the quilters; 103 color plates and 89 black-and-white photos, many of them vintage, illustrate the text. The profiles brim with suggestive details: the darkness of their sod house obliged a frontier mother and daughter to quilt outdoors; another quilter is said to have been the model for Willa Cather's My Antonia. And where the bedding is concerned, there are some beauties, including one quilt so intricate that each of its blocks, made up of eight pieces, is the size of a postage stamp. But most are honest, rather ordinary work--one pieced quilt features a conspicuously misplaced block, for example--and color sense often reflects clear limitations. Crews is an associate professor of textiles at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Naugle is a professor of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University.

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Review

"Quiltmakers 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

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"Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers provides the reader with the insights needed to understand not only that state’s quilt heritage but that of the entire country as well."—American Craft

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"A dazzling 245-page showcase of great quilts. . . . Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers is a very highly recommended and inspirational resource for dedicated quilters of all levels experience and expertise."—The Midwest Book Review

(The Midwest Book Review )

"The stories and images that accompany the 103 quilts in this book make fore some fascinating reading and will provide many hours of enjoyable study."—Patchwork & Quilting

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 245 pages
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press; First Edition edition (March 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803214529
• ISBN-13: 978-0803214521
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 8.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,726,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Featuring full-color photographs of 103 original quilts, November 15, 2003

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Featuring full-color photographs of 103 original quilts, all drawn from the Nebraska Quilt Project survey, Nebraska Quilts & Quiltmakers by Patricia Cox Crews (Professor of Textiles, Clothing, And Design, University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and Ronald C. Naugle (Professor of History, Nebraska Wesleyan University) is a dazzling 245-page showcase of great quilts ranging from the 1800's to the modern day, and from stylized repeating decorations, to applique patchworks, to stunning art visions crafted from needlecrafted fabric. Accompanying each presented quilt is a brief biography of its quiltmaker and a history of the quilt, such as one of a pioneer woman who struggled to protect her children and keep them alive under harsh conditions. Nebraska Quilts & Quiltmakers is a very highly recommended and inspirational resource for dedicated quilters of all levels experience and expertise.

5.0 out of 5 stars Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers, October 15, 2009

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I purchased this book because it was suggested to be similar to the one I was purchasing. I have been very happy with my purchase, if you love 'old' quilts, this is a great book.