The Quilting Bee is your easy-to-use portal to a world of quilt
information, documentation, and discussion.
Bookmark it and click on the links below to become part of
a community of people everywhere working to preserve, document,
and share the stories of quilts and their makers.
ASK
Ask the Experts
- Read answers to frequently asked quilt questions on everything
from conservation to copyright; or ask a question of your
own.
Read
the transcribed interviews and see the photographs of the
quiltmakers and their quilts from our Quilters' S.O.S. - Save
Our Stories.
American
Memory - View photographs of contemporary quiltmaking
styles in the United States and recorded interviews with quiltmakers
from two collections in the American Folklife Center at the
Library of Congress.
Be
trained to identify and rescue quilt-related items such as
letters, clippings, patterns, etc. in need of preservation.
See Links to Useful
Quilt Resources - Surf to hard-to-find sites offering
information on quilt history, quilt associations world-wide,
museum quilt collections, appraisals, art quilts and more.
Learn
all the steps to capture the exciting stories and culture
of today's quiltmakers, including the interview process, transcription
of the interviews, photography, and what to do with the transcribed
interviews.