Georgia quilts : piecing together a history /

Georgia quilts : piecing together a history / edited by Anita Zaleski Weinraub for the Georgia Quilt Project ; [quilt photography by William C.L. Weinraub]. - Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006. - 288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm. - A Wormsloe Foundation publication . - Publications (Wormsloe Foundation) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-273) and index.

Introduction / by Anita Zaleski Weinraub -- A background for quilting in Georgia / by Darlene R. Roth -- Early quilts / by Irene McLaren -- Tattered veterans and genteel beauties: survivors of the war between the states / by Julia Anderson Bush, with introductory remarks by Darlene R. Roth -- King Cotton / by Patricia Phillips Marshall -- Textiles: who made them and who used them / by Vista Anne Mahan -- African American quiltmaking in Georgia / by Anita Zalenski Weinraub -- The darling offspring of her brain: the quilts of Harriett Powers / by Catherine L. Holmes -- Cover: everyday quilts / by Martha H. Mulinix -- There's something about feed sacks/ by Anita Zaleski Weinraub -- Georgia's quilting groups: shared in the making, shared in the giving / by Janice Morrill -- The Olympic gift quilts: Georgia quiltmakers welcome the world / by Anita Zaleski Weinraub -- Appendixes: A. Statistical summary of documented quilts / by Margie Rogers -- B. Listing of quilt history days held / by Anita Zaleski Weinraub.

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Quilts--Themes, motives.--Georgia

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