See some of the
stories already turned in. Click on the Link above.
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Patchwork
Stories is a quilt documentation project sponsored by The Greater San
Antonio Quilt Guild (GSAQG) via The Ethel Y. Howey Grant Program. The
goal is to provide a place to record quilts and their history through
photographs and written or oral histories. These Patchwork Stories will
be compiled and available for public review on the GSAQG Web Page.
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Procedure
to Document a Quilt:
- With Oral Interview
Contact Ellen Hernandez, 210-520-1335, ellenhernandez@hotmail.com to
schedule a time and location for photos and an interview that will take
about 45 minutes.
Self-report, without interview
Complete the *Quilt Information/Documentation
Page. Contact Ellen Hernandez to submit a photo or to schedule a
photo shoot at a GSAQG General Meeting.
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Links:
www.quiltalliance.org –
Center for the Quilt; Save Our Stories; Quilt Index
www.americanquiltstudygroup.org
– research organization to preserve quilt heritage
www.h-net.org/~quilt/ - internet
discussion forum to provide exchange of information on quilting research
and documentation
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RESOURCES
*Quilt Information/Documentation Page
The following publications
are available through the GSAQG Library for review:
Tracing the Quiltmaker: Using Online and Traditional Sources, by Deborah
Cooney
Collecting Stories: The Oral Interview in Quilt Research, by Marsha
MacDowell
In Your Care We Trust: Caring for Quilts, by Fonda Ghiardi-Thomsen
Dating Antique Quilts: 200 Years of Style, Pattern, and Technique, by
Barbara
Brackman
Quilt Documentation, by Nancy Hornback
QSOS Manual (Quilter’s Save Our Stories), a project of the Alliance
for American
Quilts.
Oral History and the Law, by John A. Neuenschwander
Using Oral History in Community History Projects, by Laurie Mercier
& Madeline
Buckendorf |
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