Barbara Brackman, from Lawrence, Kansas, has played a remarkable number of roles within the
quilting community: author, lecturer, teacher, curator, researcher, pattern collector, and quiltmaker.
Her expertise in pattern and fabric identification, as well as her insights and overview of quilt history,
have had a profound impact nationally and internationally. Brackman wrote The Encyclopedia of
Pieced Patterns, Encyclopedia of Appliqué, and Clues in Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating
Antique Quilts, probably the most referenced book in quilting history.
Brackman has curated exhibits for the Knoxville Museum of Art, Kansas Museum of History, Wichita
Art Museum, and Spence Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, to name a few, and has trained
participants in quilt documentation projects, among them Iowa Quilt Research Project, Georgia Quilt
Project and the North Carolina Quilt Project. Brackman is highly sough after for lectures and fabric
dating seminars.
“Being inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame is an appropriate way to say thanks and to recognize
Barbara Brackman’s many accomplishments in researching and preserving our quilt heritage,” stated
Hazel Carter, President of The Quiters Hall of Fame, upon announcing the selection.
Website: http://www.electricquilt.com/shop/blockbase/brackman.asp
quilting community: author, lecturer, teacher, curator, researcher, pattern collector, and quiltmaker.
Her expertise in pattern and fabric identification, as well as her insights and overview of quilt history,
have had a profound impact nationally and internationally. Brackman wrote The Encyclopedia of
Pieced Patterns, Encyclopedia of Appliqué, and Clues in Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating
Antique Quilts, probably the most referenced book in quilting history.
Brackman has curated exhibits for the Knoxville Museum of Art, Kansas Museum of History, Wichita
Art Museum, and Spence Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, to name a few, and has trained
participants in quilt documentation projects, among them Iowa Quilt Research Project, Georgia Quilt
Project and the North Carolina Quilt Project. Brackman is highly sough after for lectures and fabric
dating seminars.
“Being inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame is an appropriate way to say thanks and to recognize
Barbara Brackman’s many accomplishments in researching and preserving our quilt heritage,” stated
Hazel Carter, President of The Quiters Hall of Fame, upon announcing the selection.
Website: http://www.electricquilt.com/shop/blockbase/brackman.asp
| Barbara Brackman |
Author, lecturer, teacher, curator, researcher, pattern
collector and quilt maker. Inducted into The Quilters Hall
of Fame in July 2001 in Marion, Indiana.
Research Associate: Karen Alexander
collector and quilt maker. Inducted into The Quilters Hall
of Fame in July 2001 in Marion, Indiana.
Research Associate: Karen Alexander