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Blanket Statements, Issue 26, Fall 1991

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 26, Fall 1991

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 1, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Marianne Ruch, Steve Friesen, Robert P. Stevenson, Richard E. Wentz, Nancy K. Gaugler, Robin Clouser

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Jacob Maentel: A Second Look
• The Five-Plate Stove Revisited
• The Life and Death of an Appalachian Farm
• Henry Harbaugh, Quintessential "Dutchman"
• In Memoriam: William T. Parsons, 1923-1991

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 3:8 – October 1991, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

From the President
Plans Progressing for an Exciting Conference in Seattle ‘92
Notices
Publications
Exhibits

Blanket Statements, Issue 25, Summer 1991

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 25, Summer 1991

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 3:6 – June 1991, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

From the President
Classes, Conferences, Lectures, Symposia
Competition
Publication Venue
Publications
Exhibitions
Pertinent Names and Addresses
Private Grants for Field Research on Textiles and Costumes

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 40, No. 3, Steve Friesen, Monica Mutzbauer, Christopher S. Witmer, Mary Lamey Hoffer, Harry W. Barner, Robert L. Leight, Catherine L. Emerson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Home is Where the Hearth is
• The Hearth is Where the Cook is
• "Philipps gehn in Amerka": The Palatinate Emigration in German Schoolbooks
• The Barner Farm: A Connection to Clinton County's Pennsylvania-German Heritage
• A Teacher With a Heart: Carrie Frankenfield Horne
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

Blanket Statements, Issue 24, Spring 1991

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 24, Spring 1991

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 3:6 – February 1991, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

From the President
Notices
Books
Classes, Conferences, Lectures, Symposia
Exhibitions
Research in Progress
Third Biennial Symposium: “Textiles in Daily Life”

Blanket Statements, Issue 27, Winter 1991

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 27, Winter 1991

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 40, No. 2, Amos Long Jr., Henry J. Kauffman, Robert P. Stevenson, Mark D. Howell, Hilda Adam Kring

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Some Early Rural and Domestic Industries in Pennsylvania
• Jacob Dickert, Rifle Maker
• Several Early Woolen Mills of Western Pennsylvania
• A Rural Craftsman in Present-Day Pennsylvania
• Who is in the Kitchen?
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

Interview With Ida Lee Crase (Fa 88), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Folklife Archives Oral Histories

Transcription of interview with Ida Lee Crase conducted by Lanny Ray Brittain in 1991. From folk studies student project titled "The Folk Art of Quilting" concerning Crase's quilting.

Beyond The Pyramids: Geometry And Design In The Carpets Of Egypt, 1450-1750, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Mamluk carpets present a paradox. For although they are among the most tantalizingly beautiful of all Oriental carpets, they are also the least understood. The answers to such questions as who made them, why they were made and for whom, and how they were used, are virtually unknown. These carpets, produced during the rule of the Mamluk sultans in Egypt in the late 15th century are arguably the finest ever produced anywhere. Mamluk carpets are distinguished from all other carpet-weaving traditions. In part, this distinction derives from the dominance and simplicity of geometric form (#R34.32.1): squares and rectangles, octagons and …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 12 (1991), Laurel Horton, Michael Kile, Rod Kiracofe, Lawrence Howe, Catherine E. Cerny, Vista Anne Mahan, William J. Riffe, Pat L. Nickols, Clover Nolan Williams, Valerie Wilson, Varyn M. Kendra, Kyle Emily Ciani

Uncoverings Journal

Dedication:Michael Kile (1947-1991) by Rod Kiracofe

Preface by Laurel Horton

Research Papers

A Text of the Times: The NAMES Project by Lawrence Howe

A Quilt Guild: Its Role in the Elaboration of Female Identity by Catherine A. Cerny

Quilts used as Backdrops in Old Photographs by Vista Anne Mahan

Brain Dominance and Quilters: A Small Group Study by William J. Riffe

Mary A. McElwain: Quilter and Quilt Businesswoman by Pat L. Nickols

Tradition and Art: Two Layers of Meaning in the Bloomington Quilters Guild by Clover Nolan Williams

Quiltmaking in Counties Antrim and Down: Preliminary Findings from the Ulster Quilt …