Documenting an Inscribed Quilt
Album quilts with the names of participants inscribed on it have been popular since the beginning of the 19thcentury, in part because of the development of permanent ink that would not eat through the fabric. This quilt was made in West Texas in the Crosbyton area by a group known as the Big Four Quilt Club and is dated 1959. It is being shared to outline how research to document a quilt is done in a museum and because this is one of the few in the collection on which almost every woman has been found in digital references.
Marian Ann J. Montgomery, Ph.D.
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