Quilts in a material world - Special One-Day Conference

Quilts in a material world - Special One-Day Conference

Location:	Delaware, United States
Conference Date:	2007-03-31 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2007-03-15
Announcement ID:	155997

March 31, 2007, 10:00am-7:30pm
Optional pre- and postconference workshops and tours will be held on Friday, March 30 and Sunday, April 1.

Attend our first-ever conference on quilts. Lectures will explore such varied topics as 18th-century France's global textile trade, researching early American women's history, New England whole-cloth wool quilts, and contemporary quilt design and collecting.

Invited speakers are Linda Eaton, Winterthur; Kathryn Berenson, Consultant and Lecturer, France; Dr. Sarah Fatherly, Associate Professor of History, Otterbein College; Lynne Z. Bassett, Textile and Costume Historian, Massachusetts; Amelia Peck, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Laura Fisher of Fisher Heritage Gallery, New York City.

$225; $175 Members; Optional workshops $75 each; Optional tour $25 each

Winterthur Information and Tours Office
Winterthur Museum & Country Estate
5105 Kennett Pike
Winterthur, DE 19735
Phone: 800-448-3883
Fax: 302-888-4953
Email: continuing-ed@winterthur.org
Visit the website at http://www.winterthur.org/calendar/adult_programs.asp?sub=conferences

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