Quilt Care in a Nutshell

The following tips are offered by Patricia Cummings, author of Straight Talk about Quilt Care: Display, Cleaning, and Storage of New and Antique Quilts and Needlework, Quilter’s Muse Publications
. Remember that quilts like the same environment as humans. Do not store quilts in unheated areas, in plastic bags, or in high humidity. Attics, garages, [...]

Art, Culture, Environment, and Technology revealed at the new International Quilt Study Center

[excerpt]The new three-story, 36,000 square foot, International Quilt Study Center opens Sunday, March 30, 2008 at the East Campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NB. The new facility will house the world’s largest collection of more than 2,300 quilts and an international study center dedicated to the research, preservation and display of important quilts from cultures around the world.

In addition to the Ardis and Robert James Collection of antique and contemporary studio art quilts, the collection also includes the Cargo Collection of African American Quilts, and the Jonathan Holstein Collection, which includes the seminal Whitney Collection and an unparalleled group of Pennsylvania Amish quilts.