Hawaiian Quilt Research Project
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Contact: Hawaiian Quilt Research Project
Documentation Dates: 1990 to 2001
Parameters: statewide, cut-off date of 1960
Total Quilts: over 1,200 quilts and 1,500 quilt patterns
Total Documentation Days (Number of documentation days held): 78 quilt days
Publications related to HQRP:
Brandon, Reiko M., and Loretta G. H. Woodard. Hawaiian Quilts, Tradition and Transition. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2004.
Pilgrim, Paul D., and Gerald E. Roy. Gatherings: America's Quilt Heritage. Paducah, KY: American Quilter's Society, 1995.
Woodard, Loretta G. H. "Communities of Quilters: Hawaiian Pattern Collecting, 1900-1959." In Uncoverings, ed. Joanna E. Evans. Lincoln, NE: American Quilt Study Group, 2006.
________. “Quilts.” In Finding Paradise, Island Art in Private Collections, eds. Don Severson and Mike Horikawa. Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of Arts and University of Hawai‘i Press, 2003.
________. "The Houghtailing Family and Their Hawaiian Quilts." Blanket Statements (Spring 2000), American Quilt Study Group: 1, 3-4.
________. "Hawaiian Outline-Embroidered Quilts." In Uncoverings, ed. Virginia Gunn. San Francisco: American Quilt Study Group, 1997.
Zinn, Elaine. "The Hawaiian Quilt Research Project." In To Honor and Comfort, Native Quilting Traditions, eds. Marsha MacDowell, and C. Kurt Dewhurst. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press in association with Michigan State University Museum, 1997.
Other publications related to Hawaiian quilts:
Brandon, Reiko, et al. The Hawaiian Quilt. Tokyo: Kokusai Art, 1989.
Fayé, Christine, and Margaret Lovett. Kauai Museum Quilt Collection. Lihue, HI: Kauai Museum, 1991. Black and white photos. OOP.
Faye, Margaret, and Juliet Rice Wichman. Hawaiian Quilting on Kauai. Lihue, HI: Kauai Museum, 1976. Includes an important monograph, "An Address Given to the Mokihana Club at Lihue, Kauai, March 1, 1933 by Edith Rice Plews." Black & white photos. OOP.
Goforth, Sandra L; Rezentes, Betty Rose; and Pratt, Christine Joy. Tutu and the Ti Plant. Created and written by Sandra L. Goforth; illustrated by Christine Joy Pratt; pillow designed by Betty Rose Rezentes. Honolulu: MnM Pub., 1993. 39 pages; color illus; bibliog. Juvenile fiction: "Tutu is a Hawaiian quilter whose patterns tell stories of native plants. She shares stories with her grandchildren."
Hackler, Rhoda E.A., and Loretta G.H. Woodard. The Queen’s Quilt. Honolulu: The Friends of ‘Iolani Palace, 2004. Small booklet with colored photos of crazy quilt made by Queen Lili`uokalani .
Hammond, Joyce D. Tifaifai and Quilts of Polynesia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1986. Good discussion and comparison of Hawaiian and other Polynesian quilts. OOP.
Jones, Stella M. Hawaiian Quilts. Honolulu: Daughters of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Mission Houses Museum, 1973. Includes early essay (1930) by Jones on Hawaiian quilting. OOP.
Rumford, James. When Silver Needles Swam, the Story of Tutu's quilt. Honolulu: Manoa Press, 1998. Juvenile Fiction. A beautiful, thought-provoking little picture book about a grandmother (tutu) who helps her family make a Hawaiian flag quilt in 1898. In Hawaiian and English.
Schleck, Robert J. The Wilcox Quilts in Hawaii. Lihue, HI: Grove Farm Homestead and Waiole Mission House, 1986.
Shaw, Robert. Hawaiian Quilt Masterpieces [New York]: Hugh Lauter, Levin, 1996. 120 pages; color illus; map. Gives some information about HQRP. In print.
Database: All 1,200 quilts were ingested into the MATRIX Quilt Index database in 2009.
