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Sources and thanks

Every source the stories under Patterns rest on, with the pages that use them, and our thanks to those whose work it all rests on.

Thanks

The stories here rest on the work of others, and we would like to say thank you. Most of all to the quilt historian Barbara Brackman, whose Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns and many articles online are the ground of nearly every block; quilt historians everywhere use her numbers.

Thanks to the museums that put their collections online with dates, places and names: the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska, which we call the museum in Lincoln, The Quilters' Guild, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, The Henry Ford and many more. And to Project Gutenberg and the Antique Pattern Library, which have made Marie Webster's book of 1915 and the Ladies' Art Company's catalogue of 1898 free to read.

Thanks to the quilters and designers whose names we know, and to the many whose names are forgotten. Where a designer is known, she or he is named as the origin with a link. If you find a mistake, or know a source we have missed, please write to us through Feedback.

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