Recent Acquisitions & Wish List

The International Quilt Study Center's Acquisitions Committee directs the growth of the Center's collections. The committee members are guided by a Collections Plan, which outlines the strengths and weaknesses of the collection. This helps the committee members identify priority areas for collecting, as well as areas where the Center has significant representation. Acceptance of a quilt is determined by a majority vote of Acquisitions Committee members.

Committee members consider the following criteria for donations:

The outlined collecting goals of the collection
Aesthetics, or the overall appearance of a quilt
Documentation: what is known about the quilt and its maker

Who made the quilt?
Where was the quilt made?
When was the quilt made?
Why was the quilt made?

The historic value of the quilt
Condition of the quilt
The fit of the quilt in the collection

To donate a quilt, please send the following:
Photographs of the quilt: An overall photo if possible, detail photos that illustrate condition, fabric details or other significant elements of the quilt - inscriptions, quilting, etc.
Documentation (See list above)

To: Carolyn Ducey, Curator of Collections
International Quilt Study Center & Museum
1523 N. 33rd St.
Lincoln, NE 68583-0838

Email: cducey1@unl.edu

Recent Acquisitions

Highlights of recent acquisitions include:

• The Jean Ray Laury Collection of Quilts and Archives: More than 40 quilts, teaching materials and samples and papers from one of the most significant American quiltmakers of the Quilt Revival.

• Selections from the 20th Anniversary Studio Art Quilt Associates Trunk Show

• Quilts and related textiles made by Nebraskan Grace Snyder

• The Dorothy Osler Collection of North Country quilts, United Kingdom; Quilts representing the Home of the Brave and the Quilts of Valor organizations, supporting the United States Armed Forces; and Special Olympics Quilt, featuring blocks designed by each state delegation. The blocks were sewn together and quilted by members of the Lincoln Quilters Guild, Nebraska.

The International Quilt Study Center & Museum's Acquisition Committee has focused on building a stronger representation of international quilting and patchwork traditions. Recent additions to the international collection include:

• Albania: Wholecloth donated by Ruth Lynne Snow

• Central Asia: Small Assorted patchwork items

• India, Pakistan and Bangledesh:
  Maharashtra quilts and related textiles donated by Geeta Khandelwal
  2 kantha, one from Bangladesh and one from West Bengal
  Rajasthan quilt and 2 quilted coats
  Gujarat quilts and related textiles
  Rabari quilts and related textiles
• Japan: Fireman's coat, patchwork half-kimono, and Yogi quilted night wear

• Syria: Quilted child's coat

• In addition, contemporary art quilts from the following artists have been acquired:
  Pauline Burbidge, Carol Bryer Fallert, Michael James, Joan Lintault, Linda MacDonald, Terrie Mangat, Ruth McDowell, Nadine Ruse, Pamela Studstill, and Ann Von Mertens.

  The International Quilt Study Center & Museum's acquisitions are made possible with the support of private funding.

Quilt Wish List

The International Quilt Study Center & Museum is interested in expanding its collections in certain areas.

In all cases, quilts with documentation of maker, date, and location are preferred.

• Quilts or patchwork pieces with known international origins

• Quilts that pre-date the nineteenth century, particularly seventeenth century crewel embroidered quilts, corded quilts from the Netherlands, quilted palampores, New England Quilts

• American quilts with known documentation

• American kit quilts designed by: Marie Webster, Anne Orr, Hubert ver Mehren and others.

The Center is also interested in building its American and international studio art quilt collection and would consider donations of quilts made by a number of contemporary artists.

Archival Materials and Book Wish List

We are always expanding the curatorial research library, for use by curators, graduate students, visiting scholars, and historians. The following books would be wonderful additions to our library:

• Complete set of "Everyday Life in America"

• "Everyday Life During the Civil War," by Michael Varhola

• "Clues in the Calico," by Barbara Brackman

• "Printed Textiles; English And American Cottons And Linens, 1700-1850," by Florence Montgomery

• "Textiles In America, 1650-1870," by Florence Montgomery

• "Ontario's Heritage Quilts," by Marilyn Walker

• Exhibition catalogs