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Tucked In: American Quilts And The Beds They Cover, 1790-1939, Madeleine Roberg
Tucked In: American Quilts And The Beds They Cover, 1790-1939, Madeleine Roberg
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This study examines the size of quilts to determine if changes in quilt size are a reflection of changes in bedstead size. To conduct this study 118 quilt publications and 304 furniture publications (including Sears, Roebuck and Co. retail catalogues). were examined for data on quilts and bedsteads. Using these sources the dimensions of 3299 surviving quilts and 1651 bedsteads were examined to determine whether or not changes in quilts sizes correlate with changes in bedstead dimensions. The study found that quilt size (mean area) steadily declined between 1800 and 1910 and increased in the 1920s and 1930s. The most …