Time to think about fall and winter quilt shows
featuring antique quilts. Here's a list to help you plan your travels:
California, San Jose
San Jose Quilt Museum of Quilts and Textiles: Collecting New York Beauty Quilts: Bill Volckening’s Passion, through October 27, 2013
San Jose Quilt Museum of Quilts and Textiles: Collecting New York Beauty Quilts: Bill Volckening’s Passion, through October 27, 2013
Colorado, Golden
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum. Colorado Treasures. Oct. 27 – Jan. 24, 2013
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Metropolitan Museum. Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800
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Kansas, Logan
Dane G. Hansen Museum, Perfecting the Past: Colonial Revival Quilts, a traveling exhibit from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum.
October 11 - December 1, 2013
October 11 - December 1, 2013
Kentucky, Paducah
National Quilt Museum.
From the Pieces of a Nation: Civil War Period Quilts.
July 12 to October 8, 2013.
Quilts from Arlan & Pat Christ's collection
National Quilt Museum.
From the Pieces of a Nation: Civil War Period Quilts.
July 12 to October 8, 2013.
Quilts from Arlan & Pat Christ's collection
Massachusetts, Lowell
New England Quilt Museum:
A Slice of Cheddar. A Selection of Antique Pennsylvania Quilts. July 11-October 14, 2013.
A Slice of Cheddar. A Selection of Antique Pennsylvania Quilts. July 11-October 14, 2013.
Roots of Modern Quilting: Everything Old Is New Again. October 17-December 28, 2013
Quilt by Ernest Haight
Nebraska, Lincoln
International Quilt Study Center and Quilt Museum:
Posing With Patchwork Quilts: Quilts in Photographs 1855-1955. Through December 1, 2013.
Posing With Patchwork Quilts: Quilts in Photographs 1855-1955. Through December 1, 2013.
The Engineer Who Could: Ernest Haight’s Half Century of Quiltmaking. Through March 2, 2014.
The Whole Story: Quilting Patterns, Opening October 4, 2013. Using a technique she developed for digitally tracing quilting lines on high-resolution images, guest exhibition curator Linda Baumgarten, curator of textiles and costumes at Colonial Williamsburg, brings to the forefront the often taken for granted quilting stitch. By highlighting quilting designs, Baumgarten reveals another aspect of the quilt’s message, one that is less immediately visible than the patchwork, applique, and printed patterns we often notice first on historic quilts.
New Jersey, Woodbury
Stitches Through Time: A Legacy of Quilts. Gloucester County Historical Society. More than 30 quilts dating from the 1830s-1930s. Through October, 2013.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgchs/
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgchs/
New Mexico, Las Cruces
New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum. Stitches in Time: Quilts from the Museum’s Collection. 32 quilts from 1830 to 1970. Through March 23, 2014.
New York, Blue Mountain Lake
Adirondack Museum. Common Threads: 150 Years of Adirondack Quilts & Comforters.
Historic and contemporary quilts. Through October 14, 2013.
New York, Manhattan
A view of trade as a history of design, exploring interrelationship of textiles, commerce, and taste from the Age of Discovery to the 19th century. Not a quilt show but of interest to fans of antique textiles.
September 16, 2013–January 5, 2014
The catalog is available in October:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/bookprinter.asp?isbn=9780300196986
Harriet Boswell Alexander Caperton
Western Virginia
Virginia, Richmond
Virginia Historical Society. The Great Western Virginia Cover-Up: Historic Quilts & Bedcovers. Through January 5, 2014
Over thirty bedcovers made in western Virginia between 1800 and 1950 in this second venue of an exhibit from the Blue Ridge Institute.
Virginia, Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg. Foster and Muriel McCarl Gallery. Quilts in the Baltimore Manner.
A dozen quilts 1845 to 1855. Curated by Linda Baumgarten and Kim Ivey.
Through May 11, 2014.A dozen quilts 1845 to 1855. Curated by Linda Baumgarten and Kim Ivey.
http://www.history.org/history/museums/abby_art_current.cfm
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Threads of Feeling: Poignant Stories.
This exhibit from London's Foundling Hospital features scraps of mid-18th century fabrics left as tokens with abandoned babies. Though not a quilt exhibit, the fabrics and the stories are fasincating. Through May 26, 2014.
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/wallace-museum/threads-of-feeling/
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Through October 6, 2013. http://www.laconnerquilts.com/exhibits/current-exhibits/
DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum. Threads of Feeling: Poignant Stories.
This exhibit from London's Foundling Hospital features scraps of mid-18th century fabrics left as tokens with abandoned babies. Though not a quilt exhibit, the fabrics and the stories are fasincating. Through May 26, 2014.
http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.com/do/art-museums/wallace-museum/threads-of-feeling/
October 20 – 22, 2013
A related symposium: Threads of Feeling Unraveled: The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens:
Lela Leona Williams Roady, 1925, Pallow Collection
Washington, LaConner
LaConner Quilt & Textile Museum. Antique Quilts from the Pallow Family CollectionThrough October 6, 2013. http://www.laconnerquilts.com/exhibits/current-exhibits/
Wisconsin, Cedarburg
Wisconsin Quilt Museum, Quilt Showcase from the collection, up for a few days, October 16-20, 2013.