Title: Quilts, coverlets & counterpanes
First published: 1997
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.
Subjects: Coverlets, Exhibitions, History, Inc Old Salem, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Quilts
Places: North Carolina, Southern States, Winston-Salem
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century
LC classification: NK9112 .L63 1997