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Blanket Statements, Issue 34, Fall 1993

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 34, Fall 1993

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 43, No. 1, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., James D. Mcmahon Jr., Gary M. Johnston, Monica Mutzbauer, Robert P. Stevenson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Causes of Diversity Between Old Order Amish Settlements
• Daniel Danner, Woodturner: An Early 19th-Century Rural Craftsman in Central Pennsylvania
• "Truth Somewhere in the Telling": The Legend of the Wigton Massacre
• The Connections Between Pennsylvania and the Palatinate in Popular 20th-Century German Literature
• The Story of One Old-Time Country Store

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 5:14 – Fall 1993, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Harper’s Ferry Labs Tour
Letter from the Editor
TSA Board of Directors
Letter from the President
People
Mill to Sell 19-century Loom
Change of Address
FIT FYI
Textile Collection at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ETN Expands Membership
Announcements
Conferences, Meetings, Symposia
Juried Art Exhibit
Lectures, Classes & Workshops
Call for Papers
Fellowships, Grants, Internships
Publications
New Publications Announced
Exhibitions
Blanche Payne Costume Collection Reunited
Travel
Membership Information

Blanket Statements, Issue 33, Summer 1993

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 33, Summer 1993

Tappeti Safavidi: L'Evoluzione Storica E Culturale Dell'arte Tessile Iraniana Dal Xvi Al Xviii Secolo, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

In Iran l'epoca safavide coincide con il periodo aureo dell'arte tessile: proprio nel XVI secolo infatti si completò l'evoluzione stilistica del tappeto persiano classico e la tessitura di sete e velluti giunse ai massimi livelli per tecnica e per decorazioni.

Nelle fasi successive della storia persiana nei tessuti e nei tappeti continuarono a vivere le straordinarie innovazioni dell'epoca safavide, tuttora insuperate.Nella storia l'Iran è stato uno dei più importanti paesi produttori di tessili.

In epoca medievale le sontuose sete ed i tappeti erano ricercati dalle case regnanti e dalla nobiltà europea per la qualità eccellente e per la bellezza fuori …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 42, No. 3, Margaret Clark Reynolds, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Lee C. Hopple

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Assimilation and Acculturation in a Pennsylvania-German Landscape: The Nisley Family and its Architecture in the Lower Swatara Creek Basin
• Charles-Alexandre Lesueur of Paris, Philadelphia, and New Harmony, Indiana
• Religious-Geographical History of the Hutterian Brethren in Europe and Russia, 1523-1879

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 5:13 – Spring/Summer 1993, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Contact, Crossover, Continuity
Letter from the Editor
Change of Address
Call for Bibliographies
TSA Board of Directors
Letter from the President
Museum Receives Major Grant
Textile Gallery Opens in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Bhutanese Textiles Sought
Newsletter Deadlines Explained
TSA Regional Activities – Report from the Southern Region
Announcements
Conferences, Meetings, Symposia
Lectures, Classes & Workshops
Coming Events
New Video Available
Publications
Exhibitions
Membership Information

Blanket Statements, Issue 32, Spring 1993

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 32, Spring 1993

Falcons And Flowers: Safavid Persian Textile Arts, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

The Safavid period in Iran was a golden age for textile arts. It was in the 16th century that the Classical Persian carpet evolved to its fully developed form, and it was then that woven silks and velvets reached the highest technical and aesthetic standards of all time. In subsequent periods of Persian history, textiles and carpets reflect the extraordinary achievements of the Safavid era which have never been surpassed.

Under the reign of Shah Abbas I, who reigned from 1588 to 1629, Iran established important economic ties not only with the rapidly emerging European powers, but with the Mughal …

What Is An Oriental Carpet?, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Have you ever just stared at an Oriental carpet? Have you ever wondered what makes it so attractive, fascinating, or puzzling? Have you admired its simplicity or its intricacy? Have you ever wondered where it came from? Or, how it was made?

What is an Oriental Carpet? attempts to answer some of these questions. Conceived in response to visitors' requests for more basic information about textiles, this educational approach encourages the viewer to participate in an exploration of Oriental carpets.

Although the terms carpet and rug are often interchanged, here a carpet is defined as a fairly large pile-weaving intended …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 42, No. 2, Wendell R. Zercher, Charles Greg Kelley, Robert P. Stevenson, Henry J. Kauffman, John W. Parsons, Roy Christman, Elwood Christman, Greg Huber

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Charles E. Starry, Adams County Chair Maker
• Lewis Miller's Chronicle of York: A Picture of Life in Early America
• Family Anecdotes from a Georges Creek Home
• The Pennsylvania-German Schrank
• The Barns of Towamensing Township
• A Review of Robert F. Ensminger's The Pennsylvania Barn

Textile Society Of America Newsletter 5:12 – Winter 1993, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Tours & Travel
TSA Board of Directors
Letter from the President
Announcements
Conferences, Meetings, Symposia
Lectures, Classes & Workshops
Calls for proposals
Thurman Honored
States of the art library opens
Exhibitions
Spring Textile Shows in NYC
Publications
Membership Information

Blanket Statements, Issue 35, Winter 1993

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 35, Winter 1993

Piety And Power In Early Sasanian Art, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Sasanian art has long been considered a royal art: An art in service of royalty. Indeed, traditions of kingship in Iran became a paradigm for kingship throughout the world (though not always recognized as such). But the significance and strength of Iranian kingship no doubt led, in part, to scholarly paradigms in which nearly all in historical Iran has been cast in the shadow of kingship. But there are other ways to look at kingship in Iran. This paper explores the representation of royal images in early Sasanian art from a religious perspective, a view perhaps eclipsed by the ever-present …

Knots And Bolts: Design And Technology In The Caucasus, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

In the largest sense, Oriental rugs represent both the social history and manufacturing traditions of their particular cultures and are related to the human needs, economies, and ecological constraints of those societies. Each textile or fragment represents a complex set of human interactions between user and viewer, implying a social response, and between user and maker, sometimes resulting from economic transactions among buyer and seller, lender, merchant, and trader. Suppliers of raw materials and market superintendents or commissioners for fair trade and quality control may also have been involved. The quality and appearance of any given textile results from the …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 14 (1993), Laurel Horton, Judy Elsley, Bets Ramsey, Patricia Cox Crews, Pat Crothers, Mary Jane Furgason, Sandra German, Emma Grahame, Jeannette Lasansky, Kristin Miller, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Uncoverings Journal

Preface by Laurel Horton

Research Papers

Art and Quilts: 1950,1970 9 Pat Crothers: Gender Misapprehensions: The "Separate Spheres" Ideology, Quilters, and Role Adaptation, 1850, 1890 by Bets Ramsey

Innovative Group Quiltmaking in an Isolated Coastal Community in British Columbia, Canada: Out of the Mainstream by Kristin Miller

Southwestern Quilts and Quiltmakers in Context by Jeannette Lasansky

The Smithsonian Quilt Controversy: Cultural Dislocation by Judy Eisley

Surfacing: The Inevitable Rise of the Women of Color Quilters' Network by Sandra K. German

Quiltmaking in Australia and the 1988 Bicentennial Celebrations by Emma Grahame

Prizes from the Plains: Nebraska State Fair Award, Winning …