Illinois Quilt Research Project
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Contact: Early American Museum AGSG Drawer 669, Mahmoet, IL 61853, 217-586-2612
Documentation Dates: 1986 (completed), 1988-1991 (completed), 2001 to the present (in progress)
Parameters: statewide, no cut-off date for quilts
Total Quilts: 15,809 as of 1991, an additional 3,000 were added in 1994
Total Documentation Days (Number of documentation days held): 30
Publication information (if any):
- Illinois Quilt Research Project quilts owned by Illinois State Museum
- History From the Heart, Quilt Paths Across Illinois, E. Duane Elbert, Rachel Kamm Elbert, Rutledge Hill Press, 1993.
- Connecting Stitches: Quilts in Illinois Life; symposium papers edited by Janet T. Wass, Illinois State Museum, 1995
- Somewhere in Between, Quilts and Quilters of Illinois, Rita Barro Barber; American Quilters Society, 1996
- Wass, Janice Tauer. Illinois Amish Quilts: Sharing Threads of Tradition. Springfield, IL: Illinois State Museum, 2004. 171p. ISBN 0-89792-166-6
Database: Is the documentation project a part of the Quilt Index or are records digitized in some database? Please describe. Illinois State Museum.
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