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Quilting Arts Forum (QAF)

http://www0.delphi.com/quilting/

An online resource guide for all types of quilters. Includes a very nice Resource Directory (links to other quilting sites on the web), book reviews, chats and discussions, tips and techniques, galleries, message boards and scrapbooks, and a Quilter's Marketplace, where quilters can sell or trade all sorts of goods. Participation in the chats requires free online registration.

Author: Judy Smith (info@quiltart.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Arts & Crafts--Quilting

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Folk Art

Quilts and Quiltmaking in America: 1978-1996

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/qlthtml/qlthome.html

"Showcases materials from two American Folklife Center collections, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection (1978) and the "All-American Quilt Contest" sponsored by Coming Home, a division of Lands' End, and Good Housekeeping. Together these collections provide a glimpse into America's diverse quilting traditions. The quilt documentation from the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project, an ethnographic field project conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service, includes 229 photographs and 181 recorded interviews with six quiltmakers in Appalachian North Carolina and Virginia. These materials document quilts and quilting within the context of daily life and reflect a range of backgrounds, motivations, and aesthetic sensibilities. The materials presented from the Lands' End All-American Quilt Contest collection include images of approximately 180 winning quilts from across the United States. The collection represents a wide range of quiltmaking, from highly traditional to innovative, and the quilts pictured exhibit excellent design and technical skill in a variety of styles and materials."

Author: Library of Congress (lcweb@loc.gov)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Arts & Crafts--Quilting

Arts & Humanities--Fine Arts--Folk Art

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