South Carolina Quilt Project

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Contact: South Carolina Quilt Project,ATTN: Saddler Taylor, McKissick Museum, University of South carolina, Columbia SC 29208; taylors7@gwm.sc.edu; or telephone at: 803-777-7251

Documentation Dates: 1983-1985 (completed)

Parameters: 12 counties, cut-off date of 1970

Total Quilts: 2,600 (est.)

Total Documentation Days (Number of documentation days held): 37

Publication information (if any):

  • Social Fabric, South Carolina Traditional Quilts; South Carolina Quilt History Project, 1983—1985, Laurel Horton, Lynn Robertson Myers, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina (Exhibition catalog).
  • Glorified Patchwork: South Carolina Crazy Quilts; McKissick Museum (U. of SC), 1989
  • Mosaic Quilts, Paper Template Piecing in the South Carolina Low Country, Curious Works and The Charleston Museum, Greenville and Charleston, SC, 2002.

Database: Is the documentation project a part of the Quilt Index or are records digitized in some database? Please describe. McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC houses the digital records.

Links: http://www.cas.sc.edu/mcks/folklife/index.html

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