Martha Skelton
Subtitle: master quilter of Mississippi
By: Mary Elizabeth Johnson ; photographs by J.D. Schwalm.
Contributors: Mississippi Quilt Association.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi; With the Mississippi Quilt Association
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781934110812
Subjects: Skelton, Martha, -- 1919-; Quiltmakers -- Mississippi -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Like all art forms, quilting has its masters, and Vicksburg, Mississippi's Martha Butcher Skelton is among them. Noted quilt scholar Mary Elizabeth Johnson chronicles Martha Skelton's life and her development into one of America's foremost quilt artists."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171) and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years: Martha growing up; title: Love, marriage, and family; title: Martha in the 1980s: teaching, exhibiting, competing; title: A statewide organization: more quilts than ever in the 1990s; title: The private Martha: at home, 2000-2007.