Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)

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Winner, Violet Crown Award, Writers’ League of Texas, 2008For more than a decade, Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad other Texas communities large and small. Hidden away in closets, trunks, and attics, the quilts Kaylakie found aren’t simplest heirlooms but in addition, owing to their histories, irreplaceable logos of Texas heritage.This book showcases thirty-four quilts. Through them and their stories, the cultural development of the state unfolds. Such a lot seriously is not exhibited or appear in some other permanent record. All Texas-made, they span the state geographically and range from the 1870s to the flip of the twenty-first century. As examples of what Texas quilting used to be and is as craft—and as cultural narrative—these quilts preserve a novel and compelling aspect of Texas history.

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