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Welcome to the wiki! This section of the Quilt Index is built on a wiki technology, which allows registered users to help build this resource. If you have information to update this wiki, please contact us so we may create an account for you. Once your account has been activated, you can sign in and contribute to this growing resource. (You may also send directly edits to Quilt Index staff http://www.quiltindex.org/contact.php).
Quilt Index staff brought together information from a variety of sources and set up resource areas for:
- Documentation Projects,
- Oral Histories,
- Quilt Collections, including: Museums, Libraries, Archives, and Historical Societies (U.S. and international institutions with quilts and quilt related holdings), and a special section, Michigan Quilt Collections, which delves deeply into quilt holdings in the state of Michigan), and
- Signature Quilt Pilot Project
- An H-Net Member Portal for H-Net Discussion List Members
- Quilts & Curriculum, a resource area created especially for K-12 educators.
We look forward to your feedback and contributions. Please join us!
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Quilt Documentation Projects and Oral Histories
Documentation projects are indexed alphabetically by geographic location (state, province or country). Information was initially compiled from a variety of sources including Quilt Index staff contacts, contributions from documentation project leaders, available publications lists (such as http://www.booksandoldlace.com/quilting/StateQuiltHistoryBibliography.htm), and from the data list in the back of Gatherings: America's Quilt Heritage, a project of the Museum of the American Quilter's Society by Kathlyn F. Sullivan (Paducah:1995). If you have updates to the information or publications listed here, please log in add to this wiki! (or you can send edits to Quilt Index staff).
This section lists sources for oral history material in any format that relate to quilts, quiltmakers and quiltmaking. The list includes projects, films, online presentations, and repositories. If your institution or group is conducting an oral history project related to quilt history, please add your project to the wiki!
Quilt Collections
Quilt Collections in the United States: alphabetical and Quilt Collections in the United States: by state
U.S. museums, libraries and archives, and state and regional historical societies listed here have collections of quilts and/or of books, papers or ephemera relating to quilts and quilt history. Institutions that have contributed to the Quilt Index are noted.
Many of the museums listed here were originally listed in one or both of two groundbreaking guides to quilt collections. These are:
- Oshins, Lisa Turner. Quilt Collections: A Directory for the United States and Canada. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1987.
- Zegart, Shelly. American Quilt Collections: Antique Quilt Masterpieces. Tokyo: Nihon Vogue, 1996.
If you know of a museum, library, archive or historical society with a permanent quilt or quilt-related collection that is not listed, please add it.
Canadian museums and historical societies holding quilts and quilt-related ephemera are listed here. The list is by no means complete--if you know of a Canadian quilt collection, please add it to this wiki!
International Quilt Collections
Museums, libraries, archives, and historical societies outside the United States are listed here; all have collections of quilts and/or of books, papers or ephemera relating to quilts and quilt history. Institutions that have contributed to the Quilt Index are noted. If you know of a museum, library, archive or historical society with a permanent quilt or quilt-related collection that is not listed, please add it.
The institutions listed in the Michigan Quilt Collections section are museums, historical societies, and libraries in Michigan with quilts or quilt-related ephemera in their collections. This listing represents a statewide project to inventory all of the quilts in public collections in Michigan in an effort to better understand the regional characteristics of the quilts produced in that state. Eventually, researchers working on the Deep Michigan Quilt Project hope to answer the question:
- Is there such a thing as a distinctively Michigan quilt?
See also the Michigan Quilt Scavenger Hunt.
H-Net Member Portal
From analyses of material culture in literature, to studies by art historians of the development and dissemination of particular patterns or techniques, to explorations by women's, ethnic, labor, and social historians, the Quilt Index is used by a wide range of humanities scholars and teachers.
On the H-Net Member Portal page you will find relevant quilts in the Quilt Index database for just about every H-Net list!
You can also find various listserves on topics such as historical quilts, art quilts and quiltmaking on the Email Discussion Lists page.
Quilts & Curriculum
Scavenger Hunts
The Quilt Index Scavenger Hunt is a fun way to become better acquainted with using the various searching and browsing options available on the Quilt Index. A great resource for students and teachers, it's also very useful for quilters looking for inspiration from a variety of periods in American quilting history.
Click the link above to work on the scavenger hunt collaboratively in wiki format, or download a PDF version of the scavenger hunt here: Media:QuiltIndexScavengerHunt.pdf.
Modeled after the original Quilt Index Scavenger Hunt, the Michigan Quilt Scavenger Hunt is a fun tool to help you or your students become better acquainted with both using the various searching and browsing options available on the Quilt Index and with Michigan history and quilting traditions. You may download the PDF version of the Michigan Quilt Scavenger Hunt here: Media:MichiganQuiltScavengerHunt.pdf.
These lesson plans were all created by art education interns in a graduate course at Michigan State University.
On the K-12 Content Standards page, you can find both national (U.S.) and state-specific content benchmarks in the visual arts and social studies. If your state's K-12 benchmarks do not appear on the page, please help us by adding them!
Getting started
The Getting started page has user's guide information about using the wiki software, instructions for creating an account and editing the Quilt Index wiki, directions for adding images to wiki entries, copyright information, and more.
