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Title: Quilts
Their Story and How to Make Them

Author: Marie D. Webster

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QUILTS

Their Story and How to Make Them

by

MARIE D. WEBSTER

[Illustration]

Illustrated

Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1916

[Illustration: INDIANA WREATH

Made in 1858. Colours: red, green, yellow, and pink]

Copyright, 1915, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
Introduction xv

I. Patchwork in Antiquity 3

II. Patchwork and Quilting During the Middle Ages 16

III. Patchwork and Quilting in Old England 34

IV. The Quilt in America 60

V. How Quilts Are Made 89

VI. Quilt Names 115

VII. Quilt Collections and Exhibitions 133

VIII. The Quilt's Place in American Life 149

List of Quilt Names, Arranged Alphabetically 169

List of References 177

LIST OF COLOUR PLATES

Indiana Wreath _Frontispiece_