
Gladys-Marie Fry
Quilt History & BiographyThe foundational scholarly account of quiltmaking among enslaved people in the antebellum South, drawing on oral histories, plantation records, and surviving textiles to document a history largely absent from earlier general quilt-history books. A serious academic text rather than a picture book — essential context to read alongside the Gee's Bend titles elsewhere in this category.
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Jenny Doan
Missouri Star Quilt Co. founder Jenny Doan pairs quilt patterns with reflective essays on family, faith, and community across different seasons of life.
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Kaffe Fassett
Kaffe Fassett's own account of his path from painter to knitwear designer to the textile world's most recognizable colorist.
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Barbara Brackman
Barbara Brackman's reference guide for dating and identifying antique quilts by fabric print, pattern style, and construction technique.
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Roderick Kiracofe & Mary Elizabeth Johnson
A two-hundred-year visual history of American quiltmaking, tracing how quilts reflected the lives, resources, and communities of the women who made them.
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