Made from strip sets, in which long pieces of scrap bag fabric are pieced together and separated by sashing strips of a contrasting color. Although the exact date is , this technique was common from the early 19th century until the Civil War.
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quilts
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Exhibition
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Common Heritage: Uncommon Quilts exhibition and preservation event
The Montclair Historical Society and the Nubian Heritage Quilters Guild were jointly awarded a Common Heritage grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a quilt exhibition and preservation project on June 11 and 12, 2016. The exhibit will ran through the end of July at the Montclair Historical Society’s Crane House and Historic YWCA, Montclair, NJ. The preservation component of this event allowed visitors to bring quilts form their own homes and get photographs taken of their work by a professional photographer.
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Jacobs
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Peter
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Photographer
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Peter Jacobs
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Common Heritage: Uncommon Quilts
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rucore00000002349
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Identifier (type = doi)
doi:10.7282/T31Z4765
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