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From 2000 - 2003, I wrote the column
Quizzing the Quilt Historian in Traditional QuiltWorks magazine. I received many wonderful pictures of antique
quilts and questions from readers for this regular feature, which
identified and dating their quilt.
 Since
then, I give in-person Quizzing the Quilt
Historian lectures and workshops for quilt guilds, museums and antique quilt groups. This is the same presentation I gave for
The American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA, August 2002. Using
your members' quilts and mine, it makes for a great show and
fun, easy lesson in how to date
quilts. Each person's quilt is dated and described in terms of how the date was arrived at and
what makes it a classic, or unique, or a humble
utility quilt. They all are important to our quilting
heritage.
Dating & describing students antique/vintage quilts, blocks and tops,
1800-1950
If you desire, there is a follow-up workshop to guide quiltmakers on how
to work with their antique or vintage blocks, tops
and fabrics, to make authentic-looking reproductions that incorporate styles of the past with
fabrics
available today.
The age-appropriate quilt style and quilting pattern, borders, colors and so on,
are discussed for each student's project, so that all can learn from each other. General guidelines on the care and cleaning of
quilts are covered, as well as specifics on working with fragile fabrics.
For
more information on what I offer to organizations and individuals in quilt history
click here.
Contact
information:
Kimberly Wulfert, PhD
226 W Ojai Ave
Ste 101, #107
Ojai CA 93023-3214
805-649-1821
quiltdating@jetlink.net
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