Quilt Museums:

 

 

The New England Quilt Museum was founded in 1987 by a corps of passionate individuals who dreamed of a place dedicated to the preservation and exhibition of antique and contemporary quilts. Starting the museum took extraordinary vision; continuing to fulfill its mission takes support from a wide variety of sources.   http://www.nequiltmuseum.org

The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum was the dream of long-time Golden Colorado resident Eugenia Mitchell. She wanted her collection to be both seen by the public and preserved for the future. In 1981, a group of like-minded people came together, drew up bylaws, incorporated as a museum, and began fund raising for a site. In 1990, her dream became a reality with the opening of the Museum at its present location in downtown Golden, Colorado and Eugenia's gift of 100 quilts from her private collection.  Eugenia remained active well into her 90's. She is now in a nursing home in Missouri where she celebrated her 102nd birthday last fall. http://www.rmqm.org/html/info.html

 

Located in Vermont's scenic Lake Champlain valley, Shelburne Museum is one of the nation's finest, most diverse, and unconventional museums of art and Americana. Over 150,000 works are exhibited in a remarkable setting of 39 exhibition buildings, 25 of which are historic and were relocated to the Museum grounds.

Impressionist paintings, folk art, quilts and textiles, decorative arts, furniture, American paintings, and a dazzling array of 17th-to 20th-century artifacts are on view. Shelburne is home to the finest museum collections of 19th-century American folk art, quilts, 19th- and 20th-century decoys, and carriages.

Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art and founded Shelburne Museum in 1947. The daughter of H.O. and Louisine Havemeyer, important collectors of European and Asian art, she exercised an independent eye and passion for art, artifacts, and architecture celebrating a distinctly American aesthetic.

What visitors experience at Shelburne is unique: remarkable collections exhibited in a village-like setting of historic New England architecture, accented by a landscape that includes over 400 lilacs, a circular formal garden, herb and heirloom vegetable gardens, and perennial gardens.

http://www.shelburnemuseum.org/ 

Quilt Appr aisals:

 

Marcia Kaylakie

Marcia is a quilt and quilted textile appraiser certified by the American Quilter’s Society. She is a member of the Professional Association of Appraisers– Quilted Textiles, the Austin Texas Area Quilt Guild, American Quilter’s Society, the International Quilt Association and the American Quilt Study Group.  You may contact Marcia via her webpage  http://www.texasquiltappraiser.com/ or her email is marciark@earthlink.net.

AntiqueQuilts:

Cindy's Antique Quilts:  Cindy's Antique Quilts offers a wide selection of quality antique quilts, quilt tops, blocks, feedsacks, 221 Featherweight and Indian camp/trade blankets.  The owners are Cindy and Ronnie Rennels and can be reached phone at 580-323-1174 or email crantquilt@aol.com.   Cindy's Antique Quilts Website