ANNOUNCING H-QUILTS: H-NET LIST ON QUILT RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION

[Sarah Lowengard <sarahl@xxxxxxxxx>]

I received the following from another H-Net list, and thought this might
be of interest to some Textile Conservation subscribers as well

Sarah

Sarah Lowengard                                            sarahl@xxxxxxxxx
17 May 2000             			           New York City

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Subject: ANNOUNCING H-QUILTS: H-NET LIST ON QUILT RESEARCH AND             
    DOCUMENTATION

ANNOUNCING H-QUILTS
H-NET LIST ON QUILT RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
Sponsored by
H-Net, Humanities & Social Sciences On-line, Michigan State
University; The Alliance for American Quilts, and the American Quilt
Study Group

ABOUT H-QUILTS

H-Quilts is a moderated internet discussion forum whose purpose
is to
provide an exchange of information for individuals around the world
engaged in quilting research and documentation. The list provides a
forum for raising issues, reporting findings, reviewing books and
articles, and sharing information about exhibitions, collections,
publications, grant opportunities, calls for papers, and conferences.
General as well as such specific topics as quilt documentation
projects, contemporary quilting, art quilts, pattern history, textile
history, oral history projects, and quilter biographies will be
welcomed. H-Quilts is free and open to everyone with an interest in
the documentation and study of quilts, quilters, and quilting history.
Scholars, writers, teachers, collectors, quilt appraisers, restorers,
librarians, museum curators, archivists, quilters, and participants in
local, state, provincial, regional, and national quilt documentation
projects are invited to join.

The editorial style will be similar to one appropriate for a journal
(written text) and a round table discussion at a professional
meeting
(short exchanges between colleagues). The main issue is to
maintain a
high level of professionalism, in content and form, so that everyone
has access and can benefit. Like all H-Net lists, it is strictly
moderated to filter out flames or irrelevant postings; inappropriate
and informal postings will be bounced back to sender or referred to
other lists.

H-Quilts is affiliated with The Alliance for American Quilts and the
American Quilt Study Group. The mission of The Alliance for
American
Quilts (AQSG) is "to further the recognition of quilts; to preserve
the history of quilts and quiltmakers; and to establish The Center for
The Quilt, a place that actively communicates with people about
quilts
and quilting. The American Quilt Study Group is "devoted to
uncovering
the accurate history of quilts, textiles, and the people who made
them." AQSG holds an annual conference, issues the Blanket
Statement
newsletter, and publishes Uncoverings, an annual collection of
papers
presented at the conference. For more information on AQSG, point
your
browser to: http://catsis.weber.edu/aqsg/

The H-Quilts list is co-edited by Marsha MacDowell, Michigan State
University Museum, macdowel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Patricia Keller,
History of
American Civilization Program, Winterthur Museum/University of
Delaware, berrett@xxxxxxxx; and Merikay Waldvogel, independent
quilt
scholar, quiltalive@xxxxxxxx The editors serve two-year renewable
terms, with the approval of the H-Net Executive Committee and
rotate
their duties. The current editor will be identified in all messages
coming from the list.  The editors will not alter the meaning of
messages without the author's permission.

H-QUILTS is free and open to anyone with a serious and abiding
interest in the subject.  Like all H-Net lists, H-QUILTS is moderated
to edit out material that, the editors' opinion, is not germane to the
list, involves technical matters (such as subscription management
requests), is inflammatory, or violates evolving, yet common,
standards of Internet etiquette.

Message logs and more information about H-QUILTS may be
obtained at
its website, linked from the H-Net website:

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/

ABOUT H-NET

H-QUILTS is owned by H-Net, an international network of scholars
in
the humanities and social sciences that creates and coordinates
electronic networks, using a variety of media, and with a common
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SUBSCRIBING TO H-QUILTS

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Follow the instructions you receive in reply.

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Thank you for your interest in H-QUILTS!

Marsha MacDowell
Patricia Keller
Marikay Waldvogel
H-Quilts Editors
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