Accompanying publication to the 2008 exhibit of Quilts and Quaker Heritage at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, VA. Catalog contains historical information and full-color photographs of over twenty-seven quilts made by mid-nineteenth-century Quakers under care of Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Highlights include several Signature Album quilts, exquisite detail photographs, and the story of the Quaker Valley Quilt which is inscribed with the name of a former African American slave.
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Mary Holton Robare is the guest curator of the Quilts and Quaker Heritage exhibit at the Virginia Quilt Museum in Harrisonburg, VA. Her articles on historical needlework and the Quakers who made it appear in the American Quilt Study Group publications Uncoverings 2007 and Blanket Statements; the magazines Sampler & Antique Needlework (Summer 2008) and Needle Arts (December 2007); the 2007 Journal of the Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society; and the published Proceedings of the Textile History Forum (2007).
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