Down by the Old Mill Stream
Subtitle: Quilts in Rhode Island
Contributors: Linda Welters (Editor); Margaret T. Ordonez (Editor)
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780873386272
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Quiltmaking; Textile Arts; Textile And Clothing Industries (Economic Aspects); Hobbies/Crafts; Textile industry; Crafts & Hobbies; Crafts / Hobbies; Rhode Island; USA; Industries - General; Quilts & Quilting; United States - State & Local - General; United States; General; 19th century; History; Quilts
Description: "Down by the Old Mill Stream connects history, culture, and technology to quilts in Rhode Island and details developments in textile production that affected materials available to quiltmakers. The essay in Part I explore technological developments and textile production - spinning, weaving, dyeing, and printing - as illustrated in quilt fabrics.

Additional essays connect Rhode Island quilts to the state's historic, cultural, and social heritage, exploring the stylistic aspects of quilts made by various ethnic groups and the power of quilts to connect generations. Part II highlights thirty quilts, dating from the mid-eighteenth century through 1935. These vignettes explore such topics as shipwrecks that brought calicoes to Block Island and a quilt made by a suspected female vampire."--BOOK JACKET.