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An 1826 postcard showing an illustration of "Joe the Quilter's" Cottage, Homers house. [1] Joseph Hedley (also known as Joe the Quilter, 1749 or 1750 – 3 January 1826) was a Quilter from Northumberland. During his life, he was renowned for his quality of craftsmanship, with his work being exported as far as America.
Quilters is a musical with a book by Molly Newman and Barbara Damashek, and lyrics and music by Barbara Damashek.It is about the lives of American pioneer women based on the book The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Allen.
Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.
This is a list of quilters - notable people who are known for their quilts or quilting. This list is incomplete. You can help by expanding it. A. Nellie Mae Abrams ...
Roger Cuthbert Quilter (1 November 1877 – 21 September 1953) was a British composer, known particularly for his art songs. His songs, which number over a hundred, often set music to text by William Shakespeare and are a mainstay of the English art song tradition.
Sarah Mary Taylor was born on August 12, 1916, in Anding, Mississippi. [2] She learned quilting from her mother Pearlie Posey when she was young. She lived on plantations in the Mississippi Delta and worked as a housekeeper, cook, and field hand.
Alexandra Sladky Anderson (born 1955) [1] is an American quilter, television series host, and author.Anderson is the author of various quilting books, fabric lines, and developed an award winning magazine.
Eleanor Burns (born July 3, 1945, in Zelienople, Pennsylvania) is a master quilter [1] and former TV series host of Quilt in a Day, which aired in 1994 on PBS for six seasons. [ 2 ] Career