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Keller, Patricia J.

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The quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, context, and meaning, 1750--1884.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, context, and meaning, 1750--1884./
Author:	Keller, Patricia J.
Description:	398 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Bernard L. Herman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3267176
ISBN:	9780549058793

The quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, context, and meaning, 1750--1884.
Keller, Patricia J.

The quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, context, and meaning, 1750--1884. - 398 p.

Adviser: Bernard L. Herman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2007.

This dissertation explores when and why home-produced bedquilts and quiltmaking evolved as significant objects and activities in the 18th and 19th centuries among women residing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I rely on probate inventory data drawn from six selected decades between 1750 and 1884, for estates from urban Lancaster Borough/City (primarily Germanic with a significant English element) and two disparate outlying rural areas: Drumore Township, settled by British Quaker and Scotch Irish Presbyterians; and the Cocalico valley, a Germanic region settled by persons of Anabaptist, Lutheran, and Reformed faiths. I use rates of ownership and appraised valuations of fiber-processing tools, spinning wheels, looms, and household furnishing textiles, as primary evidence to develop and interpret patterns of household textile production and consumption from the mid 1700s through the mid- and late-1800s. Bedquilts' meanings were situational and changing. These were tasteful and costly ready-made consumer trade goods popular among the international elite of the Atlantic world by 1750. Bedquilts emerged as the handwork of elite and typically urban women later in the century, markers of status and needlework competency, and fell from urban fashion in the early decades of the 1800s. Simultaneously, quilts and quiltmaking were embraced by some rural women as the1800s progressed, as industrialized spinning and factory textile production displaced household hand-spinning, dislocating women from this ages-old arena of handcraft production. The quilts these rural women and their descendants produced in the ensuing years met profound needs for women's continued involvement in the production of cultural material and situated their makers within multiple contexts of gender, taste, needlework competency, social and community identities, and ideology.

ISBN: 9780549058793Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

The quilts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: Production, context, and meaning, 1750--1884.
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