Quilts, coverlets & counterpanes
Subtitle: bedcoverings from the MESDA and Old Salem collections
By: Paula W. Locklair.
Contributors: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts.; Old Salem, Inc.
Publisher: Old Salem; Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Winston-Salem, NC; Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts -- Exhibitions; Old Salem, Inc. -- Exhibitions; Quilts -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions; Quilts -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Quilts -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- Exhibitions; Coverlets -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions; Coverlets -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Coverlets -- North Carolina -- Winston-Salem -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Quilts, coverlets, and counterpanes
Description: This sampling of bedcoverings from the Old Salem and Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) collections offers a look at thirty-nine American quilts, coverlets, and counterpanes, most made and used in the South. The introduction by Paula W. Locklair, director of collections and curator for Old Salem and MESDA, explores early documentation for bedcoverings and the women who made them, using evidence from newspapers, wills and inventories, and family histories.

The richness and variety of these bedcoverings offer new insight into the lives, talents, and imaginations of American women in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [71]).
Catalog of an exhibition held from Sept. 20, 1997 to Jan. 11, 1998 in the Frank L. Horton Museum Center at Old Salem, Winston-Salem, N.C.