Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.

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(updated: 9/03/08)

• Quilt project records housed: University of Louisville Archives and Record Center, Louisville, Kentucky – contact: kbjohnson@louisville.edu

For more information about this multi-phased project visit the Quilt Index contributor page at: *http://www.quiltindex.org/louisvillecollection.php

Documentation dates: 1980-1982

Parameters: 19th century Kentucky quilts with provenance

Total quilts: 1000

Total documentation days: 12

Public information:

• Kentucky Quilts 1800-1900; Jonathan Holstein, John Finley; The Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc., 1982.
• Expanding Quilt Scholarship, The lectures, conferences, and other presentations of Louisville Celebrates the American Quilt, A Kentucky Quilt Project Inc publication 1994, Louisville, Kentucky ISBN#: 1-880584-04-2
• In Expanding Quilt Scholarship, an article by Shelly Zegart, “Since Kentucky: Surveying State Quilts 1981-1991”
• Zegart, Shelly, “The Quilt Projects: Fifteen Years Later,” Folk Art, publication of the American FolkArt Museum, New York, N.Y. Spring 1996, pp 28-37
• Zegart, Shelly, “Affairs of State, Documenting the Past for the Future,” Quilter's Newsletter Magazine, Golden, Colorado, November 2004/No.367 pp60-63
• The Quilt Journal: An International Review, editors Jonathan Holstein and Shelly Zegart, published by the Kentucky Quilt Project Inc, six issues, 1992-95, Louisville, Kentucky

Volume 1, Number 1,1992

• The Quilt Journal: Mission Statement, by The Editors
• A New World in the Old: European Quilt Scholarship, by Janine Janniere
• Rethinking Quilt Projects: A Folklorist’s perspective, by Laurel Horton

Volume 2, Number 1, 1993

• Methodology and Meaning: Strategies for Quilt Study, by Patricia Keller
• The “Hand Quilting” of Marseilles, by Janine Janniere
• Her Life in Quilts: A Review of Quilters’ Biographies, by Laurel Horton

Volume 2, Number 2, 1993

• A Glimpse of the Japanese Quilting Community: The Influence of Quilting Schools, by Penny Nii / Shizuko Kuroha
• Quilt and Fabric Stylings of the Later Twentieth Century, by Jeffrey Gutcheon
• “Lapptacken en Kulturskatt” (The Quilts: A Cultural Treasurer): An Exhibition Review, by Julie Silber
• The Quilting of Narrative: Playful Subversion in The Robber Bridegroom, by Marjorie Ingall

Volume 3, Number 1, 1994

• Filling in Quilt History: A 16th-Century French Patchwork Banner, Janine Janniere
• Contemporary Quilts: An International Review, by Michele Walker
• Approaching Analysis: The Lancaster County Quilt Harvest, by Patricia Keller
• American Museum in Britain, by Shiela Betterton

Volume 3, Number 2, 1994

• Quilt Scholarship: The Quilt World and the Academic World, by Lorre Weidlich
• The Construction of Quilts in the 1990s, by Elaine Hedges
• The Victorian Crazy Quilt as comfort and Discomfort, by Jane Przybysz

Volume 4, Number 1, 1995, Double Issue

• Quilts Judges and Juries: Hard Questions, by Carol Jessen
• Royal Connections: Quilting and the British Monarchy by Shiela Betterton
• Quilts and Art: Value Systems in Conflict by Lorre M. Weidlich
• Documenting Britain’s Quilts: A Look at the Findings, by Janet Rae
• Discovering “The Dedicated Quilter,” by Jonathan Holstein
• Winterthur Museum’s Treasury of Quilts, by Deborah Kraak & Kathleen Carpenter
• Quilted Links? South African Kappies and French Boutis, by Lucille M. Chaveas
• More on Sicilian Quilts

Database: Yes – records are in the Quilt Index