Comprehensive Exam Reading List in Quilt Studies
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Quilt Studies Comp Reading List
1. Alcott, Louisa May. “Patty’s Patchwork.” In Aunt Jo’s Scrap Bag. 1872.
2. Atkins, Jacqueline Marx. Shared Threads: Quilting Together, Past and Present. New York: Viking Studio Books, 1994.
3. Atwood, Margaret. Alias, Grace.
4. Barker, Garry G. The Handicraft Revival in Southern Appalachia, 1930-1990. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.
5. Benberry, Cuesta and Carol Crabb. A Patchwork of Pieces, An Anthology of Early Quilt Stories 1845-1940. American Quilters Society, 1993.
6. Benberry, Cuesta. Twentieth Century Quilts, 1900-1970: Women Make Their Mark. With Joyce Gross. Paducah, KY: Museum of the American Quilters Society. 1997.
7. Brackman, Barbara. Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. Paducah, Ky.: American Quilter's Society, 1993.
8. Brackman, Barbara. Patterns of Progress: Quilts in the Machine Age.
9. Denton, Wm. Rush. Old Quilts. 1946.
10. Eiler, Lyntha Scott, Terry Eiler, and Carl Fleischhauer. Blue Ridge Harvest: A Region's Folklife in Photographs. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1981.
11. Elsley, Judy. “Making Critical Connections in Quilt Scholarship.” Uncoverings. 16(1995): 229-43.
12. Elsley, Judy. Quilts as Text(iles): The Semiotics of Quilting. 1996.
13. Ferrero, Pat, Elaine Hedges, and Julie Silber. Hearts and Hands: The Influences of Women and Quilts on American Society. San Francisco: Quilt Digest Press, 1987.
14. Freeman, Roland L. A Communion of the Spirits: African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories. Nashville: Rutledge Hill, 1996.
15. Glassie, Henry. "Meaningful Things and Appropriate Myths: The Artifact's Place in American Studies." Prospects 3 (1977): 1-49.
16. Gunn, Virginia. “From Myth to Maturity: The Evolution of Quilt Scholarship.” Uncoverings 13(1992): 192-205.
17. Gross, Joyce. "Four Twentieth Century Quiltmakers." Uncoverings 1 (1980): 28-40.
18. Hall, Carrie A. and Rose G. Kretsinger. The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt. 1935.
19. Haltman, Kenneth and Jules David Prown. American Artifacts.
20. Harding, Debra. Red & White: American Redwork Quilts.
21. Heim, Judy and Gloria Hansen. The Quilter’s Computer Companion. San Francisco: No Starch Press, 1998.
22. Hicks, Kyra. Black Threads.
23. Horton, Laurel. "In Search of the Appalachian Quilt." Then and Now 6, no.3 (Fall 1989): 19-21.
24. Horton, Laurel, ed. Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the Myths. Nashville: Rutledge Hill, 1994.
25. Ice, Joyce, and Linda Norris. Quilted Together: Women, Quilts, and Communities. Delhi, N.Y.: Delaware County Historical Association, 1989.
26. Johnson, Geraldine N. "'Plain and Fancy': The Socioeconomics of Blue Ridge Quilts." Appalachian Journal 10, no. 1 (Autumn 1982): 12-35.
27. Jones, Michael Owen. Craftsman of the Cumberlands: Tradition and Creativity. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.
28. Kingery, David, ed. Learning From Things: Method and Theory of Material Culture Studies. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.
29. Kiracofe, Rod. The American Quilt.
30. MacDowell, Marsha and Ruth Fitzgerald. Michigan Quilts: 150 Years of a Textile Tradition.
31. MacDowell, Marsha and Kurt Dewhurst. To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions.
32. Marston, Gwen. Mary Schafer: An American Quilt Maker. 2004.
33. Martinez, Katharine, and Kenneth L. Ames, eds. The Material Culture of Gender, The Gender of Material Culture. Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum; Hanover: Distributed by University Press of New England, 1997.
34. Orlofsky, Patsy, and Myron Orlofsky. Quilts in America. New York: McGraw Hill, 1974. Reprint, New York: Abbeville Press, 1992.
35. Oshins, Lisa. Quilt Collections a Directory for the United States and Canada. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1987.
36. Pershing, Linda. “She Really Wanted to be Her Own Woman: Scandalous Sunbonnet Sue.” In Coding in Women’s Folk Culture.
37. Place, Linna Funk, et al. "The Object as Subject: The Role of Museums and Material Culture in American Studies." American Quarterly 26 (1974): 281-91.
38. Przybysz, Jane. "Sentimental Spectacle: The Traffic in Quilts." Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1995.
39. Ramsey, Bets, and Merikay Waldvogel. Southern Quilts: Surviving Relics of the Civil War. 1996.
40. Roberson, Ruth Haislip, ed. North Carolina Quilts. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.
41. Showalter, Elaine. “Common Threads.”
42. Trestain, Eileen Janke. Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide, 1800-1960
43. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun.
44. Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. "Pens and Needles: Documents and Artifacts in Women's History." Uncoverings 14(1993): 221-28.
45. Waldvogel, Merikay. Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking and the Great Depression. Nashville: Rutledge Hill, 1990.
46. Walker, Alice. “Everyday Use.”
47. Webster, Marie. Quilts: Their Story and How To Make Them.
48. What's American about American Quilts? Proceedings of a Research Forum on Regional Characteristics. March 18-19, 1995. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History.
49. Yoder, Don. “Folklife Studies in American Scholarship.” In American Folklife, ed. Yoder. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976.
50. Zegart, Shelly. American Quilts Collections: Antique Quilt Masterpieces.
