Presents the results of a survey of Kansas quilts, traces the history of quilting in Kansas, and discusses Mennonite and African-American traditions

Kansas Quilts and Quilters

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Brackman, Barbara

Chinn, Jennie A.

Crafts & Hobbies

Univ Pr of Kansas

Kansas Quilts & Quilters

History

Americas

Shares patchwork patterns for animals from alligator to zebra, shows how to design, piece and assemble a quilt, and includes templates

Creature Comforts: A Quilter's Animal Alphabet Book

Shirer, Marie

Arts & Photography

Wallace-Homestead Book Co.

This publication was developed in conjunction with the traveling exhibit "Cowboy Boots: The Kansas Story." The exhibit is available through the Kansas Interpretive Traveling Exhibit Service, co-sponsored by the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Humanities Council.

Cowboy boots: The Kansas story

Kansas State Historical Society

This pattern identification book places at your fingertips illustrations and sources for over 4,000 pieced patterns. It is user-friendly and is great for identifying patterns in quilts and for furnishing inspiring possibilities for quiltmakers.

Encyclopedia Of Pieced Quilt Patterns

American Quilter's Society

The system unveiled here for dating heirloom quilts is based upon five characteristics--fabric, style, color, technique, and pattern. In recounting the method's evolution, which involved the examination of 900 date-inscribed specimens, Brackman imparts a colorful history of quilt making.

Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts

EPM Publications

Brackman has sorted appliqu designs into classes based on their general geometry and presents 1,795 patterns, both published and unpublished, from 1800 to 1950. Even unnamed designs are easy to find.

Encyclopedia of Applique: An Illustrated, Numerical Index to Traditional and Modern Patterns

EPM Publications, Inc.

Barbara Brackman presents her designs in the Prairie Flower series originally published in The Kansas City Star. Beautiful patterns are accompanied by touching diary entries from early settlers.

Prairie Flower: A Year on the Plains

C&T Publishing / Kansas City Star Quilts

This little book is a companion to our first book The Dog in the Picture, in which we selected illustrations from several hundred vintage pictures in our collection and matched them to quotes from old letters and diaries that tell a similar tale. Cat people often write of the cat's virtues, their grace or their playfulness. Mark Twain wrote about one of the kittens in his cat Tammany's latest litter, who liked "to be crammed into a corner-pocket of the billiard table - which he fits in as snugly as does a finger in a glove and then he...spoils many a shot by putting out his paw and changing the direction of a passing ball." While we found some differences in people's records of their cats and their dogs, we found similarities more important. A companion animal in the picture, whether cat or dog, reveals a good deal about people and history. The detachment of long-ago faces that stiffly stare back at us in yellowed snapshots dissolves when there is a cat in the picture.

The Cat in the Picture

Brackman, Jane

Sirius Press

Quilt historian Barbara Brackman explores the influence of early newspaperbased designers on American quilting, and offers quilt blocks that celebrate those individuals.

Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper

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