Measuring Quilts,  Quilts of Tennessee Documentation Day,  Photo Credit: Merikay WaldvogelWelcome! The Quilt Index is a growing research and reference tool designed to provide unprecedented access to information and images about quilts held in private and public hands.

Quilts of Tennessee Documentation Days, Photo credit:  Jan WilkinsThe Quilt Index, piloted with quilts inventoried by four state documentation projects, is now expanding to include museum and library quilt collections. 
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The Quilt Index was conceived and developed by The Alliance for American Quilts in partnership with Michigan State University's MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online and the Michigan State University Museum. The project has been supported in part by major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. More about project

Winedale, The Center for American History

Museum of the American Quilter's Society
Mountain Heritage Center
DAR Museum
Since Kentucky: Surveying State Quilts
Mary Schafer Quilts
Redwork: A Textile Tradition in America
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