Massachusetts quilts
Subtitle: our common wealth
By: Lynne Zacek Bassett, editor.
Contributors: Bassett, Lynne Z., 1961-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lebanon, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781584657460
Subjects: Quilts -- Massachusetts; Quiltmakers -- Massachusetts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: i. History. 1. Early quilts and quilted clothing ; 2. Northeastern Massachusetts : the crucible ; 3. Southeastern Massachusetts : from Pilgrims to poplins ; 4. Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard : quilting by the sea ; 5. Worcester County : the heart of the Commonwealth ; 6. The Connecticut river valley : a rich heritage ; 7. Berkshire County : rising to the challenge ; 8. The textile industry; title: II. Community. 9. Cooperative quilting : 1770/1850 ; 10. Anti-slavery quilts ; 11. Agricultural fairs and quilts ; 12. Politics and patriotism in quilts ; 13. Lost towns of the Quabbin ; 14. Family quilts ; 15. Immigrant and ethnic communities ; 16. Quilts in war time; title: III. Memory. 17. Quilts as memory ; 18. The colonial revival; title: Notes; title: Bibliography : selected Massachusetts quilts in other publications; title: About the contributors; title: Index.