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Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 – August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since.
The Fred Quilt inquiries were two coroner's inquests into the November 1971 death of Fred Quilt, an elder of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation in the Chilcotin Country region of the west-central British Columbia Interior. Members of Quilt's family alleged that he died days after being beaten by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) constables. The ...
A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.
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The Cross-Country Quilters (2001) The Runaway Quilt (2002) The Quilter's Legacy (2003) The Master Quilter (2004) The Sugar Camp Quilt (2005) The Christmas Quilt (2005) Circle of Quilters (2006) The Quilter's Homecoming (2007) The New Year's Quilt (2007) The Winding Ways Quilt (2008) The Quilter's Kitchen (2008) The Lost Quilter (2009) A Quilter ...
Hudson was born in 1957 or 1958 in East Los Angeles, California to the Deeshchíí'nii clan. [1] [2] [3] Three of her ancestors were part of the Long Walk of the Navajo, and her grandmother Mary Ann Foster is a master weaver. [1]
The Marie Webster House, also known as George Webster Jr. and Marie Daugherty House, is a historic house at 926 South Washington Street in Marion, Indiana.Built in 1905, it was the home of quilter Marie Webster (1859-1956) from 1909 until 1942, and is now home to the Quilters Hall of Fame.
Motherhouse of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes. The Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes was founded in Barton, Wisconsin, on August 12, 1858. Father Caspar Rehrl (1809 - 1881), an Austrian missionary, established a sisterhood of pioneer women under the patronage of St. Agnes of Rome to whom he had a special devotion. At first the ...