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Quilts are much more than fabrics or less conventional materials stitched or otherwise secured together to adorn beds and walls. While many of these beautiful and intricate works of art are rich in history and tradition and provide a gateway into the past, others reflect the avant-garde mastery of contemporary, cutting-edge talent. _Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce_ is the first comprehensive study to approach quilts as objects of material culture that have appeared consistently throughout the history of the commonwealth and the country. Linda Elisabeth LaPinta highlights such topics as the role of quilt making in women's history; the influence of early Black quiltmakers and quilters; popular Kentucky quilt patterns, types, and colors; and the continuing importance to Kentuckians of preserving quilt history and traditions.
The author provides a panoramic view of the Kentucky quilt world—from Colonial America through the American Revolution, the Civil War to the 1900s, to the new millennium and the ever-changing landscape of today's quilting industry. LaPinta reveals the pivotal role that Kentucky's quilts and quiltmakers have played in shaping significant aspects of the national quilt scene, including the first statewide quilt documentation project, significant exhibits, major quilt organizations, and the National Quilt Museum. Rounding out this all-encompassing volume is a collection of significant and intimate recollections and artistic commentaries by notable quiltmakers who created these works of art, as well as discussion of the curators, collectors, historians, entrepreneurs, and other key players who have created, conserved, celebrated, and showcased the commonwealth's extraordinary quilt world culture.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part I
Needlework on the Frontier to the Launch of Commonwealth Quilt Commerce
Nineteenth Century Kentucky Quilt Styles, Types, Patterns, and Paraphernalia
The Influence of the Sewing Machine and the Manufacture of Cotton Batting
The Presence and Influence of Early Black Quiltmakers and Quilters
Quilts as Communication and Commemoration
Quiltmaking During the Civil War and the Quilt Code Debunked
The Shaker Myth Quashed
Part II
Twentieth Century Quilt Influences, Styles, and Preferences
The Rise of Twentieth Century Quilt Commerce
The Rise of Quilt Contests
The Rise of Art Quilts, Key Influential Exhibitions, and Select Kentucky Art Quilters
The Rise of the Study of Quilt History
Part III
Innovations, Institutions, and Entrepreneurs Reconfigure the Quilt World
Kentuckians Celebrate Tradition So Quilts Will "Go On"
Quilt-Based Teaching Proliferates and Kentuckians Advance Creative Techniques
Quiltmakers Give Back
Appendices
Appendix One
Appendix Two
Appendix Three
Appendix Four
Appendix Five
Appendix Six
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
About the Author
