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Amish Quilts
The October 2005 issue of QNM has many photos of Amish quilts, on the cover and in the article "Thoroughly Modern Antiques." If you would like to learn more about the Amish people and their quilts, look for these sources at your local library.
A Gallery of Amish Quilts, Robert Bishop and Elizabeth Safanda. New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976.
Hearts and Hands: The Influence of Women and Quilts on American Society, Pat Ferrero, Elaine Hedges, and Julie Silber. San Francisco: The Quilt Digest Press, 1987.
Patterns in Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States, Henry Glassie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1968.
The Amish Quilt, Eve Wheatcroft Granick. Intercourse, Pennsylvania: Good Books, 1989.
The Amish and Their Quilts, Phyllis Haders. New Jersey: The Main Street Press, 1976.
Amish Society, John A. Hostetler. 3rd ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Amish: The Art of the Quilt, Robert Hughes and Julie Silber. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.
Land, Piety, Peoplehood: The Establishment of Mennonite Communities in America 1683-1790, vol. 1 of The Mennonite Experience in America, Richard K. MacMaster. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1985.
Quilts from the Indiana Amish, David Pottinger. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1983.
Arts of the Pennsylvania Germans, Scott Swank, Benno M. Forman, Frank H. Sommer, edited by Catherine B. Hutchings. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1983.
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