Barbara Brackman

Clues in the Calico: A Short History

Barbara Brackman, Joyce Gross and Cuesta Benberry about 1989.  Cuesta, and Joyce were two quilt scholars who helped considerably with the research for Clues in the Calico.

Twenty years ago, I published a book on how to date old quilts. I was a schoolteacher and a quilt collector, and I figured I could combine those two vocations to teach others how to tell the age of their antique quilts. It was a bit intimidating to publish a book on textile history because I had no background in textile science and little in art history, but I got a lot of support from my publisher Evelyn Metzger, who (Continue Reading...)

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