quilt history
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Quilt Journalist & Artist Edna Marie Dunn
I found this great biography about Edna Marie Dunn who illustrated the quilt column that ran in the women’s pages of the Kansas City Star.
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Quilt Columns in the Newspaper
I was excited to find this book, Women of Design, about the history of quilt columns in the women’s pages of newspapers. It includes the stories of many interesting women – all from Kansas. I will include them in my next book about the history of the women’s pages.
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Day Seven: Women’s Page History in 7 Objects
The seventh object that represents the women’s page is a quilt. Most of journalism history considers the content of women’s pages to be soft news. Yet, a closer examination of the women’s sections in the 1950s and 1960s shows more complex content. There was soft news – personality profiles, fashion stories and features. There were also stories about politics, education news and family violence. The women’s page editors created a new kind of news within the social fabric of their communities – a kind of quilted news. Quilts have become recognized as art – largely women’s art – in recent decades. Some credit the counterculture’s arts-and-crafts movement in the 1960s…
