Adams County Quilt Project Committee. The Hands That Made Them…: Quilts of Adams County, Pennsylvania. Camp Hill, PA: Planks Suburban Press, 1993.

Adamson, Jeremy. Calico & Chintz: Antique Quilts from the Collection of Patricia S. Smith. Washington, DC: Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1997.

Atkins, Jacqueline Marx. Shared Threads: Quilting Together-Past and Present. New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1994.

Bishop, Robert and Elizabeth Safanda. A Gallery of Amish Quilts: Design Diversity from a Plain People. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1976.

Blum, Dilys and Jack L. Lindsey. Nineteenth Century Applique Quilts. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989.

Brackman, Barbara. Patterns of Progress: Quilts in the Machine Age. Los Angeles: Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1997.

Brackman, Barbara. Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts. McLean, VA: EPM Publications, Inc., 1989.

Brackman, Barbara. Quilts from the Civil War. Lafayette, CA: C&T Publishing, Inc., 1997.

Cawley, Lucinda , Lorraine Ezbiansky, Denise Nordberg. Saved for the People of Pennsylvania: Quilts from The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1997.

Visit the PHMC Bookstore to purchase, Saved for the People of Pennsylvania: Quilts from The State Museum of Pennsylvania.

Fox, Sandi. For Purpose and Pleasure: Quilting Together in Nineteenth Century America. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1995.

Fox, Sandi. Small Endearments: Nineteenth Century Quilts for Children and Dolls. 2nd ed. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994.

Freeman, Roland L. A Communion of the Spirits: African American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1996.

Goldsborough, Jennifer Faulds and Barbara K. Weeks. Lavish Legacies: Baltimore Alburm and Related Quilts in the Collection of the Maryland Historical Society. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1994.

Hall, Carrie A. and Rose G. Kretsinger. The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America. Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, LTD, 1935.

Harants, Patricia E. Patricia E. Harants Lifestyle Collection The Wickersham Signature Quilt From The State Museum of Pennsylvania. Southaven: Monument Press, 2004.

Herr, Patricia T. The Ornamental Branches: Needlework and Arts from the Lititz Moravian Girls’ School, between 1800 and 1865. Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1996.

Herr, Patricia T. Quilting Traditions: Pieces From The Past. Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2000.

Horton, Laurel, ed. Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the Myths. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994.

Keller, Patricia J. Of the Best Sort but Plain: Quaker Quilts from the Delaware Valley 1760-1890. Chadds Ford: A Brandywine River Museum Publication, 1996.

Lasansky, Jeannette. Bits and Pieces: Textile Traditions. Lewisburg, PA: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1991.

Lasansky, Jeannette. In the Heart of Pennsylvania: 19th and 20th Century Quiltmaking Traditions. Lewisburg, PA: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1985.

Lasansky, Jeannette. In the Heart of Pennsylvania: Symposium Papers. Lewisburg, PA: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1986.

Lasansky, Jeannette. On the Cutting Edge: Textile Collectors, Collections and Traditions. Lewisburg, PA: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1994.

Lasansky, Jeannette. Pieced by Mother: Over 100 Years of Quiltmaking Traditions. Lewisburg, PA: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1987.

Lasansky, Jeannette. Pieced by Mother: Symposium Papers. Lewisburg, PA: Oral Traditions Project of the Union County Historical Society, 1988.

Montgomery, Florence M. Textiles in America, 1650-1870. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1984.

Nicoll, Jessica F. Quilted for Friends: Delaware Valley Signature Quilts, 1840-1855. Winterthur, DE: The Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum, 1986.

Orlofsky, Patsy and Myron. Quilts in America. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1974.

Powell, G. Julie. The Fabric of Persuasion: Two Hundred Years of Political Quilts. Chadds Ford: A Brandywine River Museum Publication, 2000.

The Quilters’ Guild. Quilt Treasures of Great Britain: The Heritage Search of the Quilters’ Guild. Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1995.

Roan, Nancy and Donald. Lest I Shall Be Forgotten. Green Lane, PA: Goschenhoppen Historians, Inc., 1993.

Roan, Nancy and Ellen J. Gehret. Just A Quilt or Juscht en Deppich: A Folk Cultural Study and Source Book of Quilting Practices in and around the Goschenhoppen Region 1840-1940. Green Lane, PA: Goschenhoppen Historians, Inc., 1984.

Safford, Carleton L., and Robert Bishop. America’s Quilts and Coverlets. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1980.

Schiffer, Margaret B. Historical Needlework of Pennsylvania. New York: Bonanza Books, 1968.

Swan, Susan Burows. Plain and Fancy: American Women and Their Needlework, 1700-1850. New York: A Rutledge Book/Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

Trestain, Eileen Jahnke. Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960. Paducah: American Quilter’s Society, 1998.

Vincent, Margaret. The Ladies Work Table: Domestic Needlework in Nineteenth Century America. Allentown: Allentown Art Museum, 1988.

Woods, Marianne Berger, ed. Threads of Tradition: Northwest Pennsylvania Quilts. Meadville: Crawford County Historical Society, 1997.

The York County Quilt Documentation Project and the York County Heritage Trust. Quilts the Fabric of Friendship. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2000.

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