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The extensive quilt collection of the International Quilt Study Center is now available online to quilt lovers anytime and anywhere.
With the use of a computer and modem, anyone interested can link to the database and see full-color images of more than 1,200 quilts in the collection and access detailed information about each quilt. A search can locate quilts by pattern name, quiltmaker, location of origin, date, and the predominant technique used in making the quilt, among other descriptions. The viewer can choose to see all 930 pieces in the Ardis and Robert James Collection or the 156 African American quilts in the Robert and Helen Cargo Collection.
Instead of traveling to the Lincoln campus of the University of Nebraska, computer users will be able to view the quilts being shown in any of the IQSC's many local or traveling quilt exhibitions.
In announcing the startup of the online database, the IQSC also introduced its newly redesigned website: http://quiltstudy.unl.edu. The site features new information about the organization as well as providing a Quilt of the Month program, an email subscription service for learning about the IQSC's quilt collections, exhibitions, and public events.
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