Join us for September's First Friday, September 2nd from 4-7pm, with free admission to the museum, plus a lecture from Barbara Brackman. 

In her lecture "The Quilt Detective: Clues in Turkey Red," Barbara Brackman will show us the clues in Turkey red prints and plains useful in dating quilts. We'll look at imports and domestic cottons in the bright/colorfast shade from Provincial prints to political bandanas with glimpses into international trade, style and chemical copies that just didn't work.

Barbara Brackman is a quilt researcher, historian and author. She has written numerous books on quilting including Facts & Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery, Encyclopedia of Appliqué, America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890, Civil War Women, Clues in the Calico, and Quilts from the Civil War, among others. A new edition of Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns, containing identification of more than 4000 pieced quilt patterns, was published in 2022.  She also has a blog titled “Material Culture:  Quilt Historian Barbara Brackman’s Blog about Quilts & Fabric Past and Present.”

Barbara Brackman was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame of Marion, Indiana in 2001