CONTENTS
Keynote Address:
In the Garrets and Ratholes of Old Houses
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
SECTION I. COVERLETS
Four Perspectives on a Bed Rug
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Lynne Zacek Bassett, Iona Lincoln, Jessie A. Marshall“A Dull Business Alone”: Cooperative Quilting in New England, 1750–1850
Lynne Zacek Bassett
SECTION II. BEDS, BED HANGINGS
“A Bed and Curtains and all Things Thereto Belonging”: Context, Value, and Scarcity in Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts
M. Michelle Jarrett MorrisA Rare Set of Eighteenth-Century Bed Hangings
Joyce Geary Volk
SECTION III. MILLINERY, WOVEN RUGS
Mary Anne Warriner, Rhode Island Milliner
Melinda TalbotRag Carpet Weaving in Connecticut, 1850–1880
Sandra Rux
SECTION IV. TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
The Mystery of the Connecticut Chair Wheel
Florence Feldman-WoodThe Hibbert-Townsend Latch Needle Mystery Unraveled: Patent Control and Nineteenth-Century American Knitting Machines
Richard M. Candee
Canterbury Shaker Textile Production
Mary Rose Boswell
SECTION V. TEXTILES AND WOMEN’S HISTORY
Having It Both Ways: The Needlework Table Cover of Mercy Otis Warren
Jill Maney and Jonathan ManeyThe Accounts of Tryphena Newton Cooke: Work, Family, and Community in Hadley, Massachusetts, 1780–1805
Marla R. Miller“Some work . . . to be kept”: Textiles and Memories of Victorian Domesticity
Kathryn Clippinger Kosto
SECTION VI. COMMEMORATIVES AND MEMORIALIZATION
Textile Commemoratives and Broadsides from New England’s Mid-Nineteenth Century
Diane L. Fagan AffleckStories from Her Needle: Colonial Revival Samplers of Mary Saltonstall Parker
Paula Bradstreet Richter
SECTION VI. REPRODUCTIONS
“I shall Cut my cote after my cloth”: Reproducing the Dress of the Pilgrims
Jill M. Hall
TEXTILES STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
Conference Program, 18 through 20 June 1999
Abstracts of Conference Papers Not Appearing in This Volume
Photograph and Illustration Credits
Notes on Contributors