Crazy Quilts
A Beginner’s Guide
By Betty Fikes Pillsbury
This definitive, meticulously illustrated how-to book is far more expansive than previous guides. Pillsbury—a master of the form—shows us why crazy quilting belongs firmly in the category of fine art and serves as an inspiring primer for beginners.
Following the Barn Quilt Trail
By Suzi Parron
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Foreword by Donna Sue Groves
The follow-up to 2012’s Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement brings readers along with Suzi Parron, her new husband, Glen, their dog Gracie, and their converted van Ruby as they leave the stationary life behind. With no permanent home, Suzi and Glen follow the barn quilt trail full time as Suzi collects the stories behind these painted quilt squares that, since the movement began in Ohio in 2001, have appeared on barns in forty-eight states and in two provinces.
Folk and Outsider Art · Travel - Special Interest · Quilting · Memoir · North America
Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement
By Suzi Parron and Donna Sue Groves
With more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.
Folk and Outsider Art · Travel - Special Interest · Quilting · North America · Memoir
Philena’s Friendship Quilt
A Quaker Farewell to Ohio
By Lynda Salter Chenoweth
Lynda Salter Chenoweth reveals the value of signature quilts as historic and social documents waiting to be read. Her research to discover the story behind an 1853 Ohio Quaker signature quilt uncovers the identity of the quilt’s recipient, her life and community, and a striking feature of the quilt itself—a “hidden” design element.
Quilting · Textile Arts · 19th century · Art History · Art · History · Americas · North America · United States · Midwest · Ohio · Ohio and Regional
Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley
By Sue C. Cummings
From 1888 to 1918, a community of Miami Valley neighbors and relatives made album presentation quilts to celebrate life passages. Their sharing of designs and construction techniques led to the development of a distinctive regional quilt style that has never been duplicated in any other region of the state or country. Album Quilts of Ohio’s Miami Valley presents more than two dozen never-before-published color photographs of these folk art album quilts.
Textile Arts · Ohio and Regional · Quilting · Ohio · Midwest · United States
Uncommon Threads
Ohio’s Art Quilt Revolution
By Gayle A. Pritchard
Gayle A. Pritchard’s compelling narrative threads its way through the emergence of the art quilt, from artists working in isolation to the explosive “big bang” of the first Quilt National exhibition and its inevitable reverberations.
Textile Arts · Quilting · History | Modern | 20th Century · Ohio and Regional
Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve
By Ricky Clark
Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve includes early quilts brought from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and contemporary quilts, including one by a conservative Amish woman and another inspired by Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Art · Textile Arts · History · Quilting · Ohio · Midwest · United States · North America · Americas · Ohio and Regional
Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve
By Ricky Clark
Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve includes early quilts brought from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and contemporary quilts, including one by a conservative Amish woman and another inspired by Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Art · Textile Arts · History · Quilting · Ohio · Midwest · United States · North America · Americas · Ohio and Regional
West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers
Echoes from the Hills
By Fawn Valentine
Tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, preserved for generations, handmade bed quilts are windows into the past. In 1983, three West Virginia county extension agents discussed the need to locate and document their state’s historic quilts. Mary Nell Godbey, Margaret Meador, and Mary Lou Schmidt joined with other concerned women to found the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search.The
Art History · Americas · North America · United States · Appalachia · Women’s Studies · Ohio and Regional · American History · History · Textile Arts · Quilting · Gender Studies · Social Science | Regional Studies
