| Description |
pages cm |
| Series |
Bur oak book |
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Bur oak book.
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| Contents |
Dortha Asher -- Elsie Noble Ball and Mary Ball Jay -- Mary Premble Barton -- Frances Brewton -- Barbara Chupp and Salina Bontrager -- Robert and Sadie Echelberger -- Helen Jacobson -- Ruth and Ivan Johnson -- Ethel Taylor Jordan -- Sara Miller -- Winnifred Tyerman Petersen -- Ruth Adams Steelman -- The Sunshine Circle |
| Summary |
"Drawing on written records by and interviews with contemporary quilters, many of whom were born in the early years of the twentieth century, Schmeal presents the life histories of these hard-working yet inspired artists. Sisters Elsie Ball and Mary Ball Jay of Fairfield - charging one and a quarter cents per yard of thread - kept meticulous records of each of the 135 quilts they stitched between 1935 and 1970. Ivan Johnson plowed his fields by day and quilted vivid designs by night. Cloth scraps were so precious to Barbara Chupp, an Amish quilter, that she became known for her mosaic piecing. Members of the Sunshine Circle, organized in 1912 in a Quaker church in Earlham, still quilt together today. Mennonite quilter Sara Miller became famous nationwide for her fabric store, Kalona Kountry Kreations |
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Their stories - of impoverished childhoods, hardscrabble work, and strong families - are enhanced by over seventy color photographs of historic quilts ranging from the early 1800s to the 1950s."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Quilts -- Iowa -- History.
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Quiltmakers -- Iowa -- Interviews.
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| LC no. |
2003042646 |
| ISBN |
0877458650 |
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