{"id":473,"date":"2013-09-05T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/barbara-brackman-quilt-historian-2\/"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T16:55:00","slug":"barbara-brackman-quilt-historian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/barbara-brackman-quilt-historian-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Brackman – Quilt Historian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nBarbara Brackman<\/div>\n
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\nOver twenty years ago at an antique show and sale I fell in
\nlove with textile history.  The show was
\nhoused in and for the benefit of an historic house in a small New England
\ntown.  As a member of our local quilt
\nguild, I was attending a booth selling quilt publications.  Also a vendor who was a fellow guild member  sold vintage textiles including a very impressive selection of vintage quilts.<\/div>\n
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\nWhat I was especially intrigued by was the description of
\neach quilt with its approximate date of creation.  While I could see the obvious distinction between 20th<\/sup>
\n century pastel and \u201ccute\u201d printed
\nfabrics and the more formal, somber characteristics of 19thC quilts, I didn\u2019t
\nunderstand the more subtle nuances that allowed for accurate dating.<\/div>\n
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\nWhen I commented on this to a friend and said I was really
\ninterested in dating quilts, she recommended the first resource book I ever
\npurchased on textile history: Clues in the Calico by Barbara Brackman.<\/div>\n
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\nMy background was in science and medicine and I was familiar
\nwith research material.  I found to my
\ndelight Brackman\u2019s approach was very user friendly, written for the interested
\nreader, not necessarily, the expert.<\/div>\n
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\nThe more I studied textiles, the more I realized that the
\nsubject of textile history was a perfect fit for me and I have enjoyed every
\ncourse, workshop, conference and reference article I have encountered
\nsince.  After those twenty years I still
\nfind enormous information to research and immense quantities of textiles to
\nexamine.<\/div>\n
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\nMy hero, Barbara Brackman, was always interested in history
\nand preservation.  She was a member of
\nthe National Trust and a founding member of the Kansas Grassroots Art
\nAssociation in 1974.  Her passionate
\ninterest in quilt history lead her to become a founding member of the American
\nQuilt Study Group, and was inducted into the Quilter\u2019s Hall of Fame in 2001.<\/div>\n
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\nBrackman has written over a dozen books on the topic of
\nquilt history and currently designs reproduction vintage fabrics for Moda.<\/div>\n
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Barbara Brackman Over twenty years ago at an antique show and sale I fell in love with textile history.  The show was housed in and for the benefit of an historic house in a small New England town.  As a member of our local quilt guild, I was attending a booth selling quilt publications.  Also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinnamonstudio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}