The quilters
Subtitle: women and domestic art : an oral history
By: Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen.
Contributors: Allen, Norma Bradley.
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Lubbock, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Quiltmakers -- Texas -- Biography.; Quiltmakers -- New Mexico -- Biography.
Description: "A moving oral history of the female pioneer settlers of Texas and New Mexico, this book brings to life the rural homesteads of turn-of-the-century America. The quilts these women make are a lovely compendium of family and community history. As their creators speak to us, we come to appreciate the vital place of women's art in the life of our country."--BOOK JACKET. "This book was the basis of the Broadway play The Quilters."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Originally published: 2nd Anchor books ed. New York : Doubleday, 1989, c1988.
Includes index.