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Winedale
Winedale is one of five divisions of the Center for American History, an organized research unit of The University of Texas at Austin that facilitates, sponsors, and supports teaching, research, and public education in U.S. history. The Center acquires, preserves, and makes available for research archival, artifact, and rare book collections; and sponsors exhibitions, conferences, video documentaries, oral history projects, grant-funded research, and publications.
 
Winedale is a complex of nineteenth-century structures and modern facilities situated on 225 acres near Round Top, Texas. Winedale fosters an understanding of Texas history and culture through research, teaching, and public service. Its research collections include nineteenth-century buildings and extensive collections of decorative arts and material culture objects.

The Winedale Center for the Quilt is a CAH program that partners with the Alliance for American Quilts to acquire, document, preserve, and present information about quilts and quilt history. Winedale’s Quilt Collection contains more than 300 quilts dating from 1800 to 2002, with special strengths in quilts made in or brought to Texas. It includes quilt collections assembled by Miss Ima Hogg, Kathleen McCrady, and Joyce Gross. Study of these quilts is supported by the Center for American History’s extensive holdings documenting quilt history, which are housed in its Research and Collections Division on the UT campus in Austin. For additional information, see www.cah.utexas.edu

The Center for American History’s Quilt Index Project entered data and digital images into the Quilt Index for approximately one hundred antique quilts in its Winedale Quilt collection, including seventeen collected by Miss Ima Hogg and twenty-six made or collected by Kathleen McCrady. CAH will add other quilts from its collection in the future.

Texas Quilt Search
In addition, CAH entered data and digital images for the 144 quilts featured in Karey Bresenhan and Nancy O’Bryant Puentes, Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1836-1936 (Vol. 1) and 1936-1986 (Vol. 2) (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1986, 1990). These quilts represent some of the finest quilts made in Texas or brought to Texas. Those in Volume I (1836-1936) were selected from more than 3,500 quilts analyzed during the three-year Texas Quilt Search sponsored by the non-profit Texas Sesquicentennial Quilt Association in twenty-seven cities and towns across Texas. The quilts shown in Volume II (1936-1986) were all made in Texas since the Texas Centennial in 1936. Some were identified during the Texas Quilt Search and others were selected during the Great Texas Quilt Round-Up, a yearlong contest for contemporary quilters to produce quilts on various Texas themes.