Pennsylvania
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In the state of Pennsylvania, documentation projects have been held on a county-by-county basis. An initial list of Pennsylvania county projects is listed here. If you have further information, please add to this wiki or send your contribution directly to the Quilt Index. Thanks!
4. Chester County Quilt Documentation Project. Nine documentation days 2002-2003. See Chester County Historical Society
11. Juniata County
12. The Lancaster County Quilt Harvest, a project of The Heritage Center Museum of Lancaster County, Lancaster, Penna. Ten public documentation days 1988 and 1989 at locations throughout Lancaster County. Other documentation by appointment.
13. Lycoming County
14. Mifflin County
15. Montgomery County--Goschenhoppen Region, Goschenhoppen Quilt Round Up, Goschenhoppen Folk Life Museum and Library
16. Montour County
18. Perry County
20. Sullivan County
21. Oral Traditions Project (15 counties), undertaken the Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society
22. Western Pennsylvania Quilt Documentation Project
23. York County
Publication information (if any):
- A People and their Quilts; John Rice Irwin; Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA, 1984.
- Decorative Arts of the Amish of Lancaster County; Daniel and Kathryn McCauley; Good Books, Intercourse PA, 1988.
- Mennonite Quilts and Pieces; Judy Tomlinson, Good Books, Intercourse, PA, 1985.
- Monroe County. Pennsylvania Quilt Project. 1993.
- Nineteenth-Century Applique Quilts, edited by Dilys Blum and Jack L. Lindsay, PMA, 1989
- Polly Allison duPont, Nancy Roan, Beverly J. Johnson, Richard S. Machmer, and Rosemarie B. Machmer, “Design and Color: Quilted in Berks.” Historical Review of Berks County 58, no. 1 (Winter 1992–1993):13–37
- Nancy and Donald Roan, Lest I Shall Be Forgotten: Anecdotes and Traditions of Quilts (Green Lane: Goschenhoppen Historians, 1993)
- Elizabeth Keller, Quilted Memories of Schuylkill County (Kutztown: Schuylkill County Quilt Heritage Project/Kutztown Publishing Company, 1999)
- Patricia J. Keller, "Of the Best Sort but Plain": Quaker Quilts from the Delaware Valley, 1760-1890 (Chadds Ford, PA: Brandywine River Museum, 1996.) Catalogue of an exhibition held January 18-March 16, 1997.
- Jeannette Lasansky, In the Heart of Pennsylvania: 19th and 20th Century Quiltmaking Traditions (Lewisburg, Penna.: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1985)
- Jeannette Lasansky, ed., In the Heart of Pennsylvania: Symposium Papers (Lewisburg, Penna.: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1986)
- Jeannette Lasansky, Pieced by Mother: Over 100 Years of Quiltmaking Traditions (Lewisburg, Penna.: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1987)
- Jeannette Lasansky, ed., Pieced By Mother: Symposium Papers (Lewisburg, Penna.: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1988)
- Jeanette Lasansky, ed., Bits and Pieces: Textile Traditions (Lewisburg, Penna.: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1991)
- Jeannette Lasansky, ed., On the Cutting Edge: Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions (Lewisburg, Penna.: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1994)
- Rachel T. Pellman, A Treasury of Mennonite Quilts (Intercourse, Penna.: Good Books, 1992)
- Nancy Roan and Ellen J. Gehret, Just a Quilt / Juscht en Deppich: A Folk Cultural Study and Source Book of Quilting Practices in and around the Goschenhoppen Region, 1840–1940 (Souderton, Penna.: Indian Valley Printing, 1984)
- Anita Schorsch, Plain & Fancy: County Quilts of the Pennsylvania Germans (New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1992)
- Patricia T. Herr, Quilting Traditions: Pieces from the Past (Atglen, Penna.: Schiffer Publishing, 2000)
- Sharon P. Angelo, Carol C. Blevins, Barbara A. Garrett, Joan U. Hamme, Dawn Heefner, Polly Stetler, Quilts: The Fabric of Friendship (Atglen, Penna.: Schiffer Publishing, 2000)
- Lucinda Reddington Cawley, Lorraine DeAngelis Ezbiansky, Denise Rocheleau Nordberg, Saved for the People of Pennsylvania: Quilts from the State Museum of Pennsylvania (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1997)
- Ellie Bennett, Frances Bittle, Doris Leas, June Seifert, Marian Shetter, Carol Small, Barbara Spicer, The Hands That Made Them: Quilts of Adams County, Pennsylvania (Camp Hill, Penna.: Plank’s Suburban Press, 1993)
- Steven Miller and Patricia T. Herr, The Quilts of Landis Valley (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 2002)
- Marianne Berger Woods, ed., Threads of Tradition: Northwest Pennsylvania Quilts (Meadville, Penna.: Crawford County Historical Society, 1997)
