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Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History

By quiltshome ⋅ March 12, 2007 ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History (Wormsloe Foundation Publication) was published in January as the end product of the Georgia Quilt Project, a multi-year survey that has documented some 10,000 quilts. The book contains 120 out of those 10,000 quilts, and the choices are enough to keep a quilt lover happy. But, there’s more…

The text contained within this book pieces a history together that stretches the antebellum era to the Olympic Gift Quilts that were presented to 197 athletes during the 1996 Games in Atlanta. From bodies recognized in the battlefield by the quilts that wrapped them to quilts that sold for $5 at the end of the nineteenth century (and that now hang in the Smithsonian) to the county that produced the most quilts for the Georgia Quilt Project (Chatham), this is a book to savor and treasure.

Oh yes - you don’t need to be from Georgia to enjoy it!