Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers

Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce

Linda Elisabeth LaPinta, Shelly Zegart, Frank Bennett (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2024
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-9818-7 (ISBN)

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Quilts are much more than fabrics or less conventional materials stitched or otherwise secured together to adorn beds and walls. While many of these beautiful and intricate works of art are rich in history and tradition and provide a gateway into the past, others reflect the avant-garde mastery of contemporary, cutting-edge talent. _Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce_ is the first comprehensive study to approach quilts as objects of material culture that have appeared consistently throughout the history of the commonwealth and the country. Linda Elisabeth LaPinta highlights such topics as the role of quilt making in women's history; the influence of early Black quiltmakers and quilters; popular Kentucky quilt patterns, types, and colors; and the continuing importance to Kentuckians of preserving quilt history and traditions.

The author provides a panoramic view of the Kentucky quilt world—from Colonial America through the American Revolution, the Civil War to the 1900s, to the new millennium and the ever-changing landscape of today's quilting industry. LaPinta reveals the pivotal role that Kentucky's quilts and quiltmakers have played in shaping significant aspects of the national quilt scene, including the first statewide quilt documentation project, significant exhibits, major quilt organizations, and the National Quilt Museum. Rounding out this all-encompassing volume is a collection of significant and intimate recollections and artistic commentaries by notable quiltmakers who created these works of art, as well as discussion of the curators, collectors, historians, entrepreneurs, and other key players who have created, conserved, celebrated, and showcased the commonwealth's extraordinary quilt world culture.

Linda Elisabeth LaPinta is associate professor of English at Elizabethtown Community College and the editor of Conversations with Kentucky Writers.

Foreword_x000D_
Introduction_x000D_
Part I_x000D_
Needlework on the Frontier to the Launch of Commonwealth Quilt Commerce_x000D_
Nineteenth Century Kentucky Quilt Styles, Types, Patterns, and Paraphernalia_x000D_
The Influence of the Sewing Machine and the Manufacture of Cotton Batting_x000D_
The Presence and Influence of Early Black Quiltmakers and Quilters_x000D_
Quilts as Communication and Commemoration_x000D_
Quiltmaking During the Civil War and the Quilt Code Debunked_x000D_
The Shaker Myth Quashed_x000D_
Part II_x000D_
Twentieth Century Quilt Influences, Styles, and Preferences_x000D_
The Rise of Twentieth Century Quilt Commerce_x000D_
The Rise of Quilt Contests_x000D_
The Rise of Art Quilts, Key Influential Exhibitions, and Select Kentucky Art Quilters_x000D_
The Rise of the Study of Quilt History_x000D_
Part III_x000D_
Innovations, Institutions, and Entrepreneurs Reconfigure the Quilt World_x000D_
Kentuckians Celebrate Tradition So Quilts Will "Go On"_x000D_
Quilt-Based Teaching Proliferates and Kentuckians Advance Creative Techniques_x000D_
Quiltmakers Give Back_x000D_
Appendices_x000D_
Appendix One_x000D_
Appendix Two_x000D_
Appendix Three_x000D_
Appendix Four_x000D_
Appendix Five_x000D_
Appendix Six_x000D_
Afterword_x000D_
Acknowledgements_x000D_
Bibliography_x000D_
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	181 color illustrations
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-8131-9818-6 / 0813198186
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-9818-7 / 9780813198187
Zustand	Neuware