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		<title>"Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts"</title>
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			<title>Stacy Hollander says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Hi Karen Thank you so much for the comment and for your acuity in noting that many of the areas had not achieved statehood at the time. It is one reason that we have not titled the quilt as a map of the United States. Map Quilt is dated 1886 in Roman numerals. The piecework around the map is a pattern that was published in ladies’ magazines in the 1880s. The quilt represents the states of the union as well as the territories as they were demarcated on maps of the period. We have speculated that the quilt is perhaps not finished as the embroidery is fairly minimal at a time when excessive embellishment was typical...]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Stacy Hollander</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2018 11:47:30 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Karen R-W says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Did the quiltmaker of the US map quilt have a working crystal ball? There were only 38 states in that year. North and South Dakota were one territory, as were Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Oklahoma wasn't even a state then. The quilt depicts the lower 48 states. Gotta wonder about the provenance of the quilt]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Karen R-W</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:03:18 -0500</pubDate>
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