Six Know-It-Alls and Their Particular Interests, Eisode 5 – FESCH.TV

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In this episode, our Six Know-It-Alls talk about their particular interests….

Lynne illuminates us on the daily and seasonal rhythms of quilt making. How did the harvest and lighting availability affect women and their work?

Barbara talks about early 19th century American quilt similarities to (and differences with) British quilts, noting particular clues in purples.

Debby presents on Baltimore Album quilts she has researched and published about with Ronda McAllen (who steps in for Q&A).

Alden discusses early chintz applique quilts, and specifially those made by Catharine Garnhart. And poses the question about a commercial component in their making?

Julie introduces us to the unusual Tile or „Stonewall“ Quilts dating across nearly a century (mid-19th through early-mid-20th). How they are different from other applique or crazy quilts.

Merikay opens another can of worms about feedsack fabrics. Just when were dress-print feedsacks available, why were they made availabe, and what should we be calling them?

READING LIST!
Books, Catalogs, etc mentioned in this episode:

Dress Print Sacks – Merikay
Soft Covers for Hard Times by Merikay Waldvogel
Cotton and Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Fabric of American Households by Marian Ann Montgomery
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas
Connolly, Loris “Recycling Feed Sacks and Flour Bags: Thrifty Housewives or Marketing Success Story” in DRESS 1992, Vol. 19, Costume Society of America, 17-36.
“Make Do: Feed-Sack Fashion in the First Half of the 20th Century,” Piecework Fall 2020 by Heather Vaughan Lee.

Baltimore Albums – Debby
Lavish Legacies by Jennifer Goldsborough
Baltimore Album Quilts by Dena Katzenberg

Catherine Markey Garnhart – Alden
Eye on Elegance: Early Quilts of Maryland and Virginia by Alden O’Brien, DAR Museum 2014

Tile Quilts – Julie
Tile Quilt Revival by Carol Gilham Jones and Bobbi Finley

Frame Quilts – Barbara
Printed Textiles: English and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850 by Florence Montgomery
Printed Textiles: British and American Cottons and Linens 1700-1850 by Linda Eaton [an update]

Quilting Parties – Lynne
“‘…a dull business alone’: Cooperative Quilting in New England, 1750‒1850.” Lynne Zacek Bassett. Textiles in New England II: Four Centuries of Material Life. The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1999. Boston University, 2001.