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The WCU museum’s quilts that are shown on the Quilt Index Web site are representative of those produced by families who lived in Western North Carolina from the 1830s through 1975, said Suzanne McDowell, Mountain Heritage Center curator.
“Quilts from our collection now have a World Wide Web audience and are available to researchers to further the knowledge base of women’s work and women’s lives,” McDowell said.
The Quilt Index (www.quiltindex.org) was formed through a partnership involving the Alliance for American Quilts, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Asheville, and Michigan State University. The project received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
The Web site also features quilts from the Museum of the American Quilter’s Society, the Texas Quilt Search and the Winedale Center for the Quilt at the University of Texas at Austin. Other quilt collections to be added in the near future will expand the index to more than 15,000 quilts.
For more information about the Mountain Heritage Center’s quilt collection and participation in the Quilt Index, contact the museum at (828) 227-7129.
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