Quilts, 1700-2010 : : Hidden Histories, Untold Stories

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Accompanies the exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, March, 20-July 4, 2010.
Introduction / Sue Prichard -- Making and using quilts in eighteenth-century Britain / Clare Browne -- Patchwork on the page / John Styles -- The governor's daughter / Claire Smith -- Complexity and context: nineteenth-century British quilts / Linda Parry -- Sewing soldiers / Christopher Breward -- Remember me: Ann West's coverlet / Jenny Lister -- Creativity and confinement / Sue Prichard -- Maintaining the craft: British quilt-making 1900-45 / Dorothy Osler -- Beneath the layers: conserving the "Pomegranate coverlet" / Joanne Hackett -- The Chapman coverlet: texts, myths and mysteries / Angela McShane, Ann Christie, Abigail Turner -- Negotiating space: fabric and the feminine 1945-2010 / Sue Prichard -- Stitchers in time and space: women in the long eighteenth century / Joanne Bailey -- His constant Penelope: epic tales and domestic narratives / Jacqueline Riding -- Quilts 1970-2010: catalogue / Claire Smith.
Quilts evoke the past - they stimulate our earliest memories of security and comfort and resonate with historical and cultural references that challenge our assumptions that stitching is simply 'women's work'. This book explores the personal and social histories which reveal the maker's complex engagement with the wider world.

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