By: Terry Tickhill Terrell

Elizabeth Stanton, a young Quaker girl, created an inscribed, one pattern, allograph quilt with dates ranging from 1856 to 1865. The quilt contains fifty- three names, said by the quilter’s descendants to be family and friends who were members of the Stillwater Monthly Meeting. In examining that claim, it became clear that deaths in the quilter’s family, religious upheaval, and historic events including the Civil War were pertinent to the construction and meaning of the quilt to the quilter herself.

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The Elizabeth Stanton Inscribed Quaker Quilt  »

By: Linda Baumgarten

Because the patterns of wholecloth quilts are created by the stitching alone, photographs—and even first-hand examination—may fail to show the subtle designs sufficiently well to compare them from one piece to the other. For this study, the author analyzed sixteen wholecloth bed quilts and petticoats, all of which feature two-handled bulbous vases of symmetrically placed flowers. Line drawings created from high-resolution photographs brought into a computer-assisted-design (CAD) program allowed the researcher to easily compare details in the subtle wholecloth pieces.

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Vase-Pattern Wholecloth Quilts in the Eighteenth-Century Quaker Community  »

By: Gail Bakkom

“Candlewicks,” white embroidered counterpanes emphasizing raised stitches, comprise a portion of early-nineteenth-century American textiles neglected in researchers’ current focus on quilts, coverlets, and samplers. A few published photos demonstrate the unique quality of this work, but available texts reveal a lack of specific information and little or no context. This study, based on a database of 300 pieces (140 date-inscribed) created by the author, traces candlewicks from early dated examples in the 1790s through the technique’s popularity in the early decades of the nineteenth century,

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“Candlewicks”: White Embroidered Counterpanes in America 1790–1880  »

By: Amanda Sikarskie

Erica Wilson is best known as a teacher and designer of embroidery. Her role in the Quilt Revival of the 1970s is less well known. Through the lens of her television program, Erica, this essay explores several quiltmaking techniques (such as English template piecing, cathedral window, and yo-yo) demonstrated by Wilson in the course of her program, as well as Wilson’s interest in the intersection of embroidery and quiltmaking,

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Erica Wilson and the Quilt Revival  »