By: Wilene Smith
There has been very little written about how nineteenth century quiltmakers collected, recorded, and exchanged patterns. Marie Webster, Patsy and Myron Orlofsky, Ruth McKendry, and Jeanette Lasansky have touched on the subject, while Dolores Hinson, in 1970, delved deeper, referring to collections of quilts blocks as “quilter’s catalogs”.
I have interviewed a quiltmaker, born in 1907 in the foothills of the Missouri Ozarks, who learned many of her cooking and needlework skills from her grandmother (1856-1933).
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