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- catalog abstract ""Down by the Old Mill Stream connects history, culture, and technology to quilts in Rhode Island and details developments in textile production that affected materials available to quiltmakers. The essay in Part I explore technological developments and textile production - spinning, weaving, dyeing, and printing - as illustrated in quilt fabrics. Additional essays connect Rhode Island quilts to the state's historic, cultural, and social heritage, exploring the stylistic aspects of quilts made by various ethnic groups and the power of quilts to connect generations. Part II highlights thirty quilts, dating from the mid-eighteenth century through 1935. These vignettes explore such topics as shipwrecks that brought calicoes to Block Island and a quilt made by a suspected female vampire."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11341937.
- catalog contributor b11341938.
- catalog contributor b11341939.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Down by the Old Mill Stream connects history, culture, and technology to quilts in Rhode Island and details developments in textile production that affected materials available to quiltmakers. The essay in Part I explore technological developments and textile production - spinning, weaving, dyeing, and printing - as illustrated in quilt fabrics.".
- catalog description "Additional essays connect Rhode Island quilts to the state's historic, cultural, and social heritage, exploring the stylistic aspects of quilts made by various ethnic groups and the power of quilts to connect generations. Part II highlights thirty quilts, dating from the mid-eighteenth century through 1935. These vignettes explore such topics as shipwrecks that brought calicoes to Block Island and a quilt made by a suspected female vampire."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Foreword / Virginia Gunn -- Introduction / Linda Welters and Margaret T. Ordonez -- pt. 1. Essays on Culture, Technology, and Quilts in Rhode Island. Cultural Legacies / Linda Welters. Woven Documents: Technological and Economic Factors Influencing Rhode Island Textile Production to 1840 / Gail Fowler Mohanty. Secrets of the Printer's Palette: Colors and Dyes in Rhode Island Quilts / Martin Bide. Technology Reflected: Printed Textiles in Rhode Island Quilts / Margaret T. Ordonez. Social Connectedness: Memories of Family and Community / Catherine A. Cerny -- pt. 2. Stitches through Time: A Selection of Rhode Island Quilts. Toile Quilt by Kathleen A. McAreavey. Quercitron: A North American Dyestuff by Jeffrey A. Butterworth. A Petticoat Quilt by Linda Welters. An African American Story by Linda Welters. Quilts for Four-Poster Beds by Susan Handy Kirby. The Ship Quilt by Linda Eppich. Patterns in Patches by Aud Fjellberg Ackerman.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 309 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Down by the old mill stream.".
- catalog identifier "0873386272 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Down by the old mill stream.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Kent, OH : Kent State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Down by the old mill stream.".
- catalog spatial "Rhode Island.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "746.46/09745 21".
- catalog subject "NK9112 .D68 2000".
- catalog subject "Quilts Rhode Island.".
- catalog subject "Textile industry United States History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / Virginia Gunn -- Introduction / Linda Welters and Margaret T. Ordonez -- pt. 1. Essays on Culture, Technology, and Quilts in Rhode Island. Cultural Legacies / Linda Welters. Woven Documents: Technological and Economic Factors Influencing Rhode Island Textile Production to 1840 / Gail Fowler Mohanty. Secrets of the Printer's Palette: Colors and Dyes in Rhode Island Quilts / Martin Bide. Technology Reflected: Printed Textiles in Rhode Island Quilts / Margaret T. Ordonez. Social Connectedness: Memories of Family and Community / Catherine A. Cerny -- pt. 2. Stitches through Time: A Selection of Rhode Island Quilts. Toile Quilt by Kathleen A. McAreavey. Quercitron: A North American Dyestuff by Jeffrey A. Butterworth. A Petticoat Quilt by Linda Welters. An African American Story by Linda Welters. Quilts for Four-Poster Beds by Susan Handy Kirby. The Ship Quilt by Linda Eppich. Patterns in Patches by Aud Fjellberg Ackerman.".
- catalog title "Down by the old mill stream : quilts in Rhode Island / edited by Linda Welters & Margaret T. Ordoñez.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".