Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection
May 22, 2010–September 6, 2010

More than 40 outstanding quilts on exhibit from Winterthur Museum & Country Estate document women’s political, social, and cultural lives in the formative period of the early American republic (1760-1850). With skillful needlework, graphic patterning, and an eye for color, quiltmakers transformed both common and exotic textiles into extraordinary works of art.