{"id":265,"date":"2011-01-09T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/"},"modified":"2014-09-05T14:38:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:38:24","slug":"quilt-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/quilt-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: Quilt History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Clare Rose is a recognised expert on the history of patchwork and quilting, specialising in British and European quilts and quilted garments from 1700-1900.\u00a0She\u00a0advised the Victoria and Albert Museum on\u00a0the object descriptions for their 2010 exhibition ‘Quilts 1700-2010: Hidden Histories, Untold Stories’, and spoke at the related conference. She has researched and published many of the quilts and quilted garments in the V&A collection.<\/span><\/p>\n

Her most recently published quilt history article is ‘Professional Quilters in Colonial-Era London’ in Spike Gillespie’s Quilts Around the World: The Story of Quilting from Alabama to Zimbabwe. <\/strong>This article examines the lives of women trying to make a living from quilting before 1800,\u00a0mostly working on wholecloth quilted silk or wool petticoats to wear under fashionable dresses. It discovers the voices of\u00a0quilters in the Old Bailey Trials records –\u00a0including the quilter\u00a0who stole\u00a0the petticoat she was stitching,\u00a0and another accused of running a house of assignation!\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0illustrates surviving examples from museum collections. <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

During 2009 Clare Rose\u00a0was an advisor to the Berlin State Museums for ‘Inlaid Patchwork in Europe from 1500 to the Present, collaborating with experts in Europe, America and Australia. She contributed a chapter on ‘Exhibiting Knowledge: British Inlaid Patchwork’ and several object descriptions to the catalogue, and was instrumental in organizing the British staging of the exhibition. <\/span><\/p>\n

Clare Rose has researched the history of\u00a0professional quiltmaking\u00a0 in Britain before 1800, uncovering how quilted goods were traded between India, Europe, Britain, and the American colonies. She has studied surviving quilts and merchants documents in European, British and American\u00a0archives to see how patterns and techniques were copied and developed in order to\u00a0profit from the fashion for quilting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clare Rose\u00a0is an Associate Fellow of the International Quilt Study Centre of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. She\u00a0has lectured on quilts to the IQSC, Colonial Williamsburg, Quilt Expo Europa, the Centre International d’Etude des Textiles Anciens, the\u00a0British Festival of Quilts, and the British Quilt Study Group. <\/span><\/p>\n

Quilt History Articles<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n