Quilt Index

The Quilt Index is a project of Matrix at Michigan State University

The Quilt Index is a research platform and laboratory built around an international digital library of a massive and continually expanding collection of thematic material culture digital photographs, texts (oral, video, and written), and documents. The Quilt Index aims to provide digital preservation of and searchable access to quilts, stories about quilts and their makers, and to related quilt hi

story resources and to serve as a basis for a wide range of scientific, humanistic, scholarly, educational, and artistic investigations and applications.

09/01/2026

September is the back-to-school month and well be highlighting all quilts school related. Today's quilt is a made to honor and help heal the students at Columbine High School. https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=24-20-342

08/27/2026

Hungarian Harvest Festival is a celebration of quiltmaker Mary Gasperik's heritage. https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=18-14-25

08/25/2026

Susan Buckwalter of Upper Marlboro, Maryland salutes a favorite Harvest time dessert, with Twenty Hungry Blackbirds At a Cherry Pie, https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=52-152-452

08/20/2026

Blueberry Morning by Cynthia Schmitz is part of the National Quilt Museum's collection, https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=10-7-164

08/18/2026

Almina Manning appliqued this Peach Tree top c1840. The owner's mother quilted it c1920. https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=38-36-2888

08/13/2026

Corn Crib is a beautiful pictorial made by Adabelle Dremann that's in the National Quilt Museum's Collection, https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=10-7-222.

08/11/2026

Corn and Beans is a popular pattern and I love the setting of this quilt made by Laura Ratliff and registered by the Wyoming Quilt Project, https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=27-23-2736

08/07/2026

Even a less than perfect photo can't hide the beauty of this Harvest Vine quilt. Made by M. Avanelle Dixon Rippey is was documented by the Indiana Quilt Registry Project,
https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=39-40-5295

08/05/2026

Here in Michigan it's Harvest time, so all month long we'll feature quilts in that theme. The first is Saguaro Harvest from Arizona quiltmaker extraordinaire Goldie Tracy Richmond who celebrated her Tohono O'odham Indian reservation community in her quilts. https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=38-36-4039

07/28/2026

This quilt was made as a memorial to the lives lost on 9/11. It is in the collection of the Indiana State Museum, https://quiltindex.org//view/?type=fullrec&kid=39-40-6728

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