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- Title
Adirondack Quilts and Comforters: A Regional Study.
- Authors
Bond, Hallie E.
- Abstract
In 1988 and 1989, The New York Quilt Project (NYQP) documented more than 6,000 quilts from the Empire State. Dr. Robert Bishop noted in the introduction to the resulting book that the Project was not finished and “certain important gaps have now been identified for further research.” This paper is an attempt to fill one of those gaps by examining the quilts of the Adirondacks. It summarizes a study of 110 quilts made in this mountainous, northern part of the state dating from the mid-1850s through the 1970s. Quilt structure, materials, design, biographies of quilters, and community histories reveal a much more complex life than was (and still is) assumed for people with a low cash income living in an isolated “wilderness.” The quilts illuminate ways in which Adirondack life remained tradition-tied to the land and to seasonal patterns, and reliant on home production, but they also reveal that Adirondack quiltmakers participated in the latest national trends and technology.
- Subjects
ADIRONDACK Mountains (N.Y.); UNITED States; QUILTMAKERS; QUILTS; QUILTED goods; ART quilts; QUILTING; NINETEENTH century; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Uncoverings, 2013, Vol 34, p8
- ISSN
0277-0628
- Publication type
Article