Description: An abundantly illustrated volume from the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project and the most authoritative survey of quilts and quiltmakers in the state. Showcases the diversity of quilting materials, methods, and patterns used from the nineteenth century to the present and reveals how quilts serve as conduits of history and culture.
Brief description: ANITA ZALESKI WEINRAUB is the chairwoman of the Georgia Quilt Project and a contributor to The Olympic Games Quilts volume. She has curated four quilt exhibitions at the Atlanta History Center.
Review Quotes:
It's nice to see what was once dismissed as 'women's work' finally getting its due. The once-humble quilt, now widely hailed as an art form, takes center stage in Georgia Quilts. With this lush 304-page tome, Georgia becomes the latest U.S. state to proudly claim a scholarly study of its quilts . . . Georgia Quilts offers more than quilts. It gives us the women who made them and 200 years of the Georgia in which they lived. It shows that so-called women's work is as much a part of the fabric of our state's heritage as wars and politics. Amen to that.
--Southern Living