The world has many great textile traditions, and the art and practice of quilt-making is certainly one of them. The International Quilt Study Center (IQSC) was founded in 1997 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with the kind assistance of Ardis and Robert James, who donated 900 quilts. Since then, the Center has grown to include research symposia, a graduate program in textile history, and...

The latest offering from the peerless Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory Project showcases materials from two American Folklife Center collections that explore "America's diverse quilting traditions." The first collection, the Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project, is an ethnographic field project conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service. The...

With the goal of creating a single, comprehensive index to American quilts, the Quilt Index builds on the work of 4 state quilt documentation and digitization projects: the Michigan Quilt Project, Kentucky Quilt Project, Illinois Quilt Research Project, and Quilts of Tennessee (more information about these projects is at the site). Currently almost 900 quilt images and pieces of information are...