Shared Threads: Quilting Together--Past and Present

by Jacqueline Marx Atkins

Shows and discusses friendship quilts, family quilts, wedding quilts, mourning quilts, fundraising quilts, commemorative quilts, and quilts for social causes

152 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1994

Reviews

[A. Kuhlii · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent look at the role of quilting in families and communities--strengthening bonds of kinship and friendship, celebrating rites of passage (such as the interesting tradition of young men making or receiving "Freedom" quilts), memorializing the dead. Covers early 1800s-1990s and shows many amazing quilts with fascinating stories. I only wish there could have been more close up photos!