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Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 3 (1982), Sally Jeter Garoutte, Sandra Metzler, Tandy Hersh, Bertha B. Brown, Ellen F. Eanes, Nancy J. Rowley, Pat L. Nickols, Barbara Brackman, Mary Antoine De Julio, Margaret Malanyn, Mary Cross

Uncoverings Journal

Foreword by Sandra Metzler

Some Aspects of an 1809 Quilt by Tandy Hersh

Cuna Molas: The Geometry of Background Fill by Bertha B. Brown

Nine Related Quilts of Mecklenburg County, 1800-1840 by Ellen F. Eanes

Red Cross Quilts for the Great War by Nancy J. Rowley

String Quilts by Pat L. Nickols

The Hall/Szabronski Collection at the University of Kansas by Barbara Brackman

A Record of a Woman's Work: The Betsey Reynolds Voorhees Collection by Mary Antoine de Julio

Fifteen Dearborn Quilts by Margaret Malanyn

The Quilts of Grant Wood's Family and Paintings by Mary Cross

Marseilles Quilts and Their …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 2 (1981), Sally Jeter Garoutte, Katherine R. Koob, Judy Mathieson, Dorothy Cozart, Flavin Glover, Marilyn P. Davis, Barbara Brackman, Lynn A. Bonfield, Mary Katherine Jarrell, Imelda G. Degraw

Uncoverings Journal

Foreword by Sally Jeter Garoutte

Research Papers

Documenting Quilts by Their Fabrics by Katherine R. Koob

Some Sources of Design Inspiration for the Quilt Pattern Mariner's Compass by Judy Mathieson

Women and Their Quilts as Portrayed by Some American Authors by Dorothy Cozart

Discovery of the Cedar Heights Quilt Collection by Flavin Glover

The Contemporary American Quilter by Marilyn P. Davis

California's First Quilting Party 53 Barbara Brackman, Quilts at Chicago's World's Fairs by Sally Jeter Garoutte

The Production of Cloth, Clothing, and Quilts in 19th Century New England Homes by Lynn A. Bonfield

Special Presentations

Three Historic Quilts by …

Uncoverings: The Research Papers Of The American Quilt Study Group, Volume 1 (1980), Sally Jeter Garoutte, Barbara Brackman, Lucille Hilty, Joyce Gross, Sandra Metzler-Smith, Bets Ramsey, Winifred Reddall, Cuesta Benberry, Jean T. Federico, John L. Oldani

Uncoverings Journal

Foreword by Sally Jeter Garoutte

Research Papers

Midwestern Pattern Sources by Barbara Brackman

The Passion For Qui/tmaking by Lucille Hilty

Early Colonial Quilts in a Bedding Context by Sally Jeter Garoutte

Four Twentieth Century Quiltmakers by Joyce Gross

Quilts in Pomo Culture by Sandra Metzler-Smith

Design Invention in Country Quilts of Tennessee and Georgia by Bets Ramsey

Pieced Lettering on Seven Quilts Dating from 1833 to 1891 by Winifred Reddall

Special Presentation

Afro-American Women and Quilts: An Introductory Essay by Cuesta Benberry

White Work Classification System by Jean T. Federico

Archiving and the American Quilt: A Position Paper by John …

The Work Of Al-Hasan B. Muhammad, Die Engraver At Isbahan And Al-Muhammadiyya, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Four Buyid coins in the collection of t he American Numismatic Society, struck between 358-68 H. /A.D. 968-79 at two mints in Jibal province, illustrate a phenomenon unique in the history of Islamic coinage. They concern the status of a die engraver named al-Hasan b. Muhammad. A silver dirham bearing his signature was first noted by George C. Miles and published in 1938. It was at that time the only Islamic coin known to bear the signature of a die engraver. More recently, four additional coins have been located which shed more light upon the career of this artisan. His …

The Bryas Palace Of Theophilus, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

According to the Continuation of the chronicles of Theophanes the Bryas palace of Theophilus (829-842) was built in imitation of an Arab palace. The present inquiry into its Islamic source offers a new interpretation of the Bryas palace within the context of Middle Byzantine secular architecture and the development of court ceremonial. ::?revious studies have concentrated upon locating Bryas in efforts to determine the extent of Islamic impact on the architecture of Byzantium. The most recent attempt, put forth by Dr. Semavi Eyice, tentatively links the unexcavated ruins at KUyUkyal!, a suburb of Istanbul, with the literary description of Bryas …

Excavations At Korucutepe, Turkey. Part Ii: The Fortification Wall, Carol Bier

Textile Research Works

Excavations at Korucutepe have brought to light a fortification wall of a type common in Anatolia during the second millennium B.c. The wall had been exposed in places by bulldozing operations for a government farm. Excavation revealed a plan consisting of a curtain wall with a double stone foundation (see fig. 7). Square towers project at intervals where the direction of the wall changes. Adjacent to two of the towers is a passageway, one on the south side of the mound, one on the northeast, leading out from the city. There is no indication of any cross walls, or casemates, …

Nebraska Verse 1923–1924

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

The verse herein printed was written by students now in residence at the University of Nebraska. The first poem in the book received the prize of fifty dollars offered by the class of 1898, and the second poem the prize of twenty-five dollars offered by the Vestals, an organization of girls in the College of Arts and Sciences. The committee chose twenty poems, which were submitted for the final award to Christopher Morley, John G. Neihardt and Percy MacKaye. The title page was designed by Gladys Lux.--LOUISE POUND, CONSTANCE SYFORD, HARTLEY B. ALEXANDER, SHERLOCK B. GASS, J. A. RICE, JR. …