OUR BOOK

MassQuilts has accepted a contract offer from the University Press of New England to produce a 300-page book, tentatively titled "Massachusetts Quilts, Our Common Wealth."    The finished book will feature approximately 100 of the most beautiful and historically significant quilts, with images including overall views, detail shots, and photographs of the makers, for a total of about 200 photographs.  The book will be available in Fall 2008.

Authors for the book include editor Lynne Z. Bassett, costume and textile historian and associate fellow of the International Quilt Study Center of Lincoln, Nebraska; Paula Richter, curator of textiles and costumes at the Peabody Essex Museum; Aimee Newell, curator of collections at the National Heritage Museum; Marjorie Childers, professor of sociology at Elms College, quilt scholar and certified quilt appraiser; Lauren Whitley, assistant curator of textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Vivien Lee Sayre, quilt scholar and certified quilt appraiser, Dawn Adiletta, curator of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, CT, Anita Loscalzo, Curator of the New England Quilt Museum and Helen Ewer, quilt scholar.

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