What might a quilt made of shirt factory remnants in  the 1940-1960 years look like? Cora Lewis Hunt Carver (1893-1977) of Charlotte...

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman (1860 - 1935) Charlotte Perkins is best known as a writer and leader in the women's movement from ...

Ad for a machine made quilt 1940 In 1895 several newspapers ran a lengthy story about commercial quiltmaking in Connecticut, wh...

Mabel Elizabeth Schmitz Obenchain (1903-2001) Mabel Schmitz Obenchain was a 20th-century version of a "gentlewoman in reduced circ...

"The Dry Goods Clerk" seems to have been a comic stock figure It was a difficult way to make a living, or so th...