Barbara Brackman
Author of Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns
About the Author
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Works by Barbara Brackman
America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890: 8 Reproduction Quilt Projects: Historic Notes and Photographs; Dating Your Quilts (2004) 153 copies
Facts and Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery: 8 Projects, 20 Blocks, First-Person Accounts (2006) 122 copies
Making History: Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970: 9 Reproduction Quilt Projects - Historic Notes & Photographs - Dating… (2008) 106 copies
Susan McCord, the Unforgettable Artistry of an Indiana Quilter (Our Favorite Quiltmakers) (2004) 12 copies
Divided Hearts, A Civil War Friendship Quilts: Historical Narratives, 12 Blocks, Instruction & Inspirations (2020) 6 copies
Unraveling The Story 1 copy
A Morris Tapestry 1 copy
Blockbase 1 copy
Patchwork Pattern 1030 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Barbara Brackman
- Birthdate
- 1945-07-06
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA (birth)
Lawrence, Kansas, USA - Education
- University of Kansas (BA|art education|1967)
University of Kansas (MA|Special Education}1974) - Occupations
- author
quilt historian
fabric designer - Organizations
- American Quilt Study Group
- Awards and honors
- Quilter's Hall of Fame (2001)
- Short biography
- Brackman is best known for her Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns (1979), which identified 4216 pieced quilt patterns, and Encyclopedia of Applique (1993), which identified 1795 appliqued quilt patterns. Both books are based on quilt collections and published sources from roughly 1800 to 1970. These books have also been released in electronic form under the title BlockBase (DOS version in 1995, Windows version in 2000). Clues in the Calico, published in 1989, was one of the first studies to use an anlaytic approach to identifying vintage quilts and other textiles on the basis of their color and design attributes. Brackman has also been active in debunking the fanciful myths surrounding the so-called "underground railroad quilt code".
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