Pieced by Mother: Over 100 Years of Quiltmaking Traditions

Jeannette Lasansky

Arts & Photography

Union County Historical Society

Book by Lasansky, Jeannette, Gunn, Virginia

Bits and Pieces: Textile Traditions

Gunn, Virginia

A Good Start: The Aussteier or Dowry

History

Lasansky, Jeannette

Americas

On the Cutting Edge Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions examines the collecting attitudes of an early quilt enthusiast, Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of the Shelburne Museum as well as that of a venerable national museum - the DAR. Other authors discuss collecting from personal, contemporary, and topical points of view: political textiles and memorabilia; textiles, related tools and sewing equipment from southeastern Pennsylvania and the development of the Eastern quilt market. The Pennsylvania vendue or auction - a major source for early as well as contemporary collectors - is explored from an historical point of view. Quiltmaking traditions across the nation are examined; on Chesapeake Bay plantations from 1794-1846 as revealed in diaries, slave narratives, and existing material culture, signature quilt traditions and their evolution in New Jersey from 1837-1867; Amish quilt fabrics and how they reflect tradition, adaptation, and change; and 20th-century salvage quilt attitudes as mirrored in Hispanic quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico. Also, examined are the design explosion in Depression-era quilts, and the extensive use of sack material in clothing construction and quiltmaking of that period. Last, the myth versus the reality of various craft traditions is discussed. "Were blacksmiths really muscle-bound? Were basketmakers Gypsies and were thirteen quilts in the dowry?" illustrates how our 20th-century mindset is influenced by prominent early collectors, exhibitionism, and publications among other things.

Pieced by Mother Symposium Papers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Redware Pottery in Central Pennsylvania, 1790-1904

Chronicles the evolution of the dowry as practiced by the rural Pa.-German and Anglo-Saxon farm families from the mid-18th century to current and similar practices among the Amish. It shows how those "gifts from home" were, and are, part of a complex inheritance system. (88pp. color illus. index. Oral Traditions Project, 1990.)

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, patriotic and other events were celebrated in the United States with a profusion of honey-combed tissue-paper products starting in the early twentieth century. The largest American manufacturer of these paper fantasies was - and still is - The Beistle company in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. The guide to their paper products is arranged for easy reference by season and then by theme. It includes Beistle catalog images of the period as well as exact dates of manufacture for each of hundreds of these paper items through 1960. Descriptive copy includes original prices. The author's text includes a history of the Beistle Company and an overview of their production - season by season. Collecting Guide is the first in a two-part series. The second book, The History and Magic of Honeycomb, co-authored by Virginia Gunn and Jeannette Lasansky, focuses on the development and use of honeycomb paper goods in the Far East, Europe and the United States as well as related phenomena in textiles, patterned glass, aerospace, clothing and more.

Collecting Guide: Holiday Paper Honeycomb : Cards, Garlands, Centerpieces and Other Tissue-Paper Fantasies of the 20th Century

On the Cutting Edge: Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions

Oliver, Celia Y.

Rural Delivery: Real Photo Postcards from Central Pennsylvania 1905-1935 shows rural America at its best during these years and relates the history of photographic techniques to the country's craze for postcards. Over 200 duotones.

Rural Delivery: Real Photo Postcards from Central Pennsylvania, 1905-1935

BLAKE, Jody.

Union County Historical Society (Pa.)

This updated and revised book covers the gamut of Union County's history. It begins with the region's earliest days when the Delaware Indians were in residence and how the arrival of settlers, who ventured into this frontier area from Berks and Lancaster counties, marked the beginning of major changes. Synder's text, first published in 1976, has been expanded and updated to reflect newly discovered material on such groups as the Amish and the developments in Union County up to 2000. 
Distributed by Penn State University Press by arrangement with the Union County Historical Society.

Union County, Pennsylvania: A Celebration of History

Snyder, Charles McCool

Downie, John W.

Kalp, Lois

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