The golden anniversary of a great museum collection is celebrated in a volume destined to be cherished by quiltmakers, collectors, textile artists, and antique enthusiasts. Founded in 1947, the Shelburne Museum, near Burlington, Vermont, houses an extraordinary collection of appliqued, pieced, embroidered, paint-decorated, knitted, crocheted, and hand-woven bedcovers, totaling more than 700 items. The fascinating story behind the woman who amassed the collection, Electra Havemeyer Webb, is recounted in this finely illustrated commemorative volume. Readers are also treated to pattern instructions for five of the quilts in the collection.
