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The Know-It-Alls discuss quilts made from colonial era through the Columbian Exposition of 1893. Several segments have new information following up on previous topics. Julie presents breaking news on her tile quilt topic of last month—a much earlier one has surfaced and is explored in depth. Remember Episode 4 on Quilt Myths (available on vimeo.com) when Lynne said not quilts but bed rugs were the most common colonial era bedcovering? She’s here to explain what those are, their design sources, and where they reached their pinnacle of excellence. Alden uses an 18th century quilt to discuss the importance of revisiting and updating research; she and Lynne discuss how Alden's quilt and Lynne's bed rugs share design styles. Debby explores a fascinating group of friendship quilts from Pennsylvania with overlapping names, illustrating family and community ties, and providing genealogical information not found in documents. Barbara looks at the use of rows of half-blocks in Southern quilts and considers how they relate to Southern ways of making the bed. And Merikay does a deep dive into an 1893 World’s Fair crazy quilt’s imagery to consider whether its family history holds up, or needs tweaking.  Reading List  Julie Silber: Carol Gilham Jones and Bobbi Finley, Tile Quilt Revival: Reinventing a Forgotten Form, C&T Publishing, 2010 Provincetown printers: A Woodcut Tradition, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983 Packed in a Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson, a film directed by Michelle Boyaner, 2016  (available on Kanopy without a fee)  Lynne Bassett: Lynne Z. Bassett. “The Foote Bed Rug: Design Influences.”  In Peter Benes, ed., Textiles in New England II:  Four Centuries of Material Life.  The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Annual Proceedings 1999.  Boston University, 2001.  Susan Schoelwer. Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740-1840. Hartford, CT: Connecticut Historical Society, 2010. Edward Town and Angela McShane, eds. Marking Time: Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020.  Debby Cooney: Barbara Brackman, Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts, EPM Publications, 1989. Linda Otto Lipsett, Remember Me: Women & Their Friendship Quilts, Quilt Digest Press, 1985.  Merikay Waldvogel: Merikay Waldvogel, "One Man's Passion: An 1893 World's Fair Crazy Quilt" in Quilters Newsletter Magazine, September 2005, 50-54. Erik Larsen, Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (2003).

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Six Know-It-Alls - Episode 6: From Bed Rugs to Crazy Quilts