Texas Quilt Search Project

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Contact: Winedale Quilt Collection at the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin

Documentation Dates: 1984 (completed)

Parameters: statewide, cut-off date of 1936

Total Quilts: 3,500

Total Documentation Days (Number of documentation days held): 27

Publication information (if any):

  • Lone Stars Vol. I - A Legacy of Texas Quilts 1836-1936 and Lone Stars Vol. II, 1936-1980, by *Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, University of Texas Press, 1986, 1990.
  • "Texas Quilts, Texas Treasures" by the Texas heritage Quilt Society, 1986 (pub. by AQS).
  • Texas Quilts, Texas Women, Suzane Yabsley; Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 1984.
  • Kaylakie, Marcia and Janice Whittington. Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest) (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest) Texas Tech University Press, 2007. 256p. 0896726061
  • Mason, Melvin Rosser, 1927- Martha Mitchell of Possum Walk Road : Texas quiltmaker / text by Melvin Rosser Mason ; photographs by Westen McCoy. 1st ed. Huntsville, Tex. : Texas Review Press, 1999. 80 pages; illus.
  • Ice, Joyce Ann. Quilting and the pattern of relationships in community life. Dissertation in support of PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 1984. 273 pages. "Based on fieldwork with a quilting club in a small, central Texas community"
  • Kucko, Jane Kolar. Trinity Valley Quilters' Guild: Quiltmaking Practices and Motivations (Texas). Dissertation in support of the PhD, Texas Woman's University, 2003. Advisor: Deborah Young. 502 pages.

Database: Is the documentation project a part of the Quilt Index or are records digitized in some database? Please describe. Yes, records are alunched in the Index.

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