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Marie Webster
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In 1990, Rosalind Perry published a
new edition of her grandmother's quilt book with the complete original
text and illustrations. She added a biography, notes, index, and twenty-two
new color photographs of quilts. Since then Rosalind has teamed up with
pattern designer Marty Frolli to publish two Marie Webster pattern books:
A Joy Forever (1992) and Marie WebsterÕs Garden of Quilts
(available in Spring 2001).
In 1991, Marie Webster was inducted
into the Quilters Hall of Fame. Her Marion, Indiana home is being renovated
to house the archives and exhibits of the Quilters Hall of Fame and can
be toured during Celebration 2001, July 19-22. The Indianapolis Museum
of Art's Webster Collection, containing Marie Webster's earliest quilts,
was a gift of Mrs. Gerrish Thurber, Marie Webster's daughter-in-law. The
quilts have been exhibited in the United States and Japan.
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For information on the books mentioned in this article,
please contact The Practical Patchwork Company, P. O. Box 30065, Santa
Barbara, CA 93130, phone (805) 682-3664, or visit the web site at www.mariewebster.net.
For information on the Quilters Hall of Fame, write to P.O. Box 681, Marion,
IN 46952, phone (765) 664-9333, e-mail quilters@comtek.com,
or visit the web site at www.quiltershalloffame.org.
Merikay Waldvogel of Knoxville, Tennessee,
is author of Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking and the Great
Depression (1990) and lectures frequently on 1930s quilts and patterns.
To order book, send e-mail to quiltalive@aol.com
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