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- Title
Knockers, Pickers, Movers, and Shakers: Quilt Dealers in America, 1970-2000.
- Authors
Bavor, Nancy
- Abstract
The Quilt Revival in the last decades of the twentieth century gave rise to new quilt-related professions and disciplines, including historians, collectors, shop owners, show organizers, appraisers, artists and makers, teachers, authors, and publishers. Often overlooked is the vital contribution quilt dealers played in bringing antique and vintage quilts to the marketplace, along with other quilt-related activities. Based on interviews conducted by the author from August 2011 to April 2013, this paper discusses how the profession developed, how dealers acquired their inventory and to whom they sold it, and how they managed their business and interrelationships. The sixteen interviews with nineteen American quilt dealers active between 1967 and 2000 reveal that, in addition to buying and selling quilts, dealers often participated in other quilt-related disciplines as historians, collectors, appraisers, teachers, authors, and publishers. Altogether, the interviews with these pioneers provide a fascinating glimpse into the world of quilt dealers and their work.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ART dealers; QUILTS; HISTORY; PRICES; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Uncoverings, 2014, Vol 35, p8
- ISSN
0277-0628
- Publication type
Article