Archive for January, 2008
10 Tips for Vintage Collectors
10 Tips for Beginning Collectors
The following quidelines for collectors may be helpful for collecting crafts, collectibles, and ethnic artifacts. Collecting different categories of artifacts can be very exciting; for example, combining antique quilts with contemporary art quilts or with ethnic crafts.
1. Go for the challenge. The fun is in the hunt. Collecting on a [...]
Art needlework
Art needlework (a type of surface embroidery popular in the later nineteenth century) was introduced to America at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.
Vintage Quilt Museums
On-going compilation of antique and vintage quilt museums across the country.
Historical Origins of quilting
Ancient relics give us hints of quilted items in early China, Egypt, India and Persia. For example, a carved ivory figure of a pharaoh of the Egyptian First Dynasty, circa 3400 B.C, appears to be wearing a quilted mantle, probably ceremonial attire. An Egyptian leather canopy quilt from 980 B.C., preserved now in the [...]
Most expensive quilt
The most expensive quilt ever sold at auction is a Civil War-era quilt known as the Reconciliation Quilt, bought for $264,000 at Sotheby’s in 1991.
Four Score and Seven Quilts Ago – Ft. Worth, TX
Four Score and Seven Quilts Ago - Feb 08 – Feb 10, 2008
Amon Carter Exhibit Hall
The Bear Creek Quilt Guild invites you to join the celebration of the art of fine quilting. Over 400 beautiful quilts on display as well as a very large vendor mall. There will also be many special exhibits along with a [...]
Exhibit: Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative: Forgetting Piece By Piece
Through February 28, 2008 at The Grace Museum, Abilene TX
Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece By [...]
“Wild by Design” quilt exhibit at the Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York
Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts is a quilt exhibit hosted by the Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York, January 19 – March 16, 2008
Many people think of quilts primarily as somewhat rigorous, repetitive exercises in geometrical patterning. But a great free-wheeling [...]
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