On the Cutting Edge : Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions Book

	Electra Havemeyer Webb and Shelburne's Quilt Collection	4
	The Evolution of the Quilt Collection at the DAR Museum	16
	Quilted Ballots: Political and Campaign Textiles	26
	Rags Into Riches: The Collecting of Textiles and Needlework in Southeastern Pennsylvania	34
	All In and All Done? The Pennsylvania Vendue	42
	Fabric and the Amish Quilt: Tradition, Sources and Change	48
	Quiltmaking on Chesapeake Plantations	56
	Characteristics of Signed New Jersey Quilts	70
	Quilt Design Explosion of the Great Depression	84
	Feed, Flour, Tobacco and Other Sacks: Their Use in the 20th Century	96
	The Hispanic Tradition of Quiltmaking in Taos County, New Mexico	102
	Myth and Reality in Craft Tradition: Were Blacksmiths Really Muscle-bound? Were Basketmakers Gypsies? Were Thirteen Quilts in the Dowry Chest?	108
	Index	120