{"id":256606,"date":"2026-07-13T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/commemorative-american-quilts-sandra-sider-1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:56:00","slug":"commemorative-american-quilts-sandra-sider-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1kitap1.com\/en\/commemorative-american-quilts-sandra-sider-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemorative American Quilts – Sandra Sider (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1920, 91 \u00d7 68 in., made in Delaware Courtesy of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia Detail, Tobacco Silks Quilt Courtesy of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia Republican campaign handkerchief Collection of Teresa Barkley Democrat campaign handkerchief Collection of Teresa Barkley We know from nineteenth-century quilt history that blocks with the letter \u201cT\u201d covering the surface often were created to indicate support of temperance and prohibition. The same sort of overall lettered motif honored some of our presidents, such as an \u201cH\u201d quilt from Ohio.<\/p>\n

Made around 1930, it celebrated the presidency of Herbert Hoover in forty-eight \u201cH\u201d blocks, white lettering on blue, with a red background.5 The elephant and donkey, symbols of our two major political parties, appeared in patterns for quilt blocks, especially a year or two in advance of a presidential election\u2014such as \u201cA Very Democratic Donkey,\u201d published by the Kansas City Star shortly before the 1932 election.6 Each party produced its own campaign textiles that were worked into quilts and other objects as patriotic symbols.<\/p>\n

National Recovery Act yoyo quilt in NRA office, Washington, DC Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as president from 1933 until 1945, before term limits were ratified in 1951, steering the US through the Great Depression. To that end, he established the National Recovery Agency as part of his New Deal for America to help industry recover from the economic fiasco.<\/p>\n

Although the Supreme Court declared this aspect of the New Deal to be unconstitutional and shut it down in 1936, several of the goals were accomplished, with Roosevelt viewed as a hero by many workers. Textile companies printing feed-sack bags honored him in their motifs. We have several \u201cNRA\u201d quilts from that time featuring the blue eagle insignia of the agency, and at least one of them was gifted to the president.7 The blue eagle became a symbol of patriotism nationwide for businesses supporting the recovery effort as shop owners posted the image on their packages and in their windows.<\/p>\n

They commercialized patriotic imagery like many businesses would do in 1976.<\/p>\n

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Other Schiffer Craft Books on Related Subjects: Quilts of Valor: A 50-State Salute, Quilts of Valor Foundation, Contributing authors Ann Parsons Holte, Renelda Peldunas-Harter, Ann Rehbein, Sue Reich, Foreword by Marianne Fons, ISBN 978-0-7643-5630-8 Art Quilts Unfolding: 50 Years of Innovation, Sandra Sider, editor, Nancy Bavor, Lisa Ellis, Martha Sielman, SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates, Inc.), ISBN 978-0-7643-5626-1 Quilts Presidential and Patriotic, Sue Reich, ISBN 978-0-7643-5041-2 Copyright \u00a9 2026 by Sandra Sider Sections of chapter 7 previously appeared in the author\u2019s self-published book Pioneering Quilt Artists, 1960\u22121980: A New Direction in American Art, 2010.<\/p>\n

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For more information, contact the publisher. We are always looking for people to write books on new and related subjects. If you have an idea for a book, please contact us at proposals@schifferbooks.com. 1kitap1.com\/en Dedicated to my Appalachian grandmother, Virginia Dare (Morgan) Saunders (1884\u20131974). I sleep under one of her many quilts. And to my grandmother who lived in the Midlands of South Carolina, Lucie Vida (Gunter) Kneece (1887\u20131973). She spun her own thread for tatting from cotton grown on her farm. 1kitap1.com\/en 1kitap1.com\/en Contents FOREWORD by Pamela Weeks ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: PATRIOTISM IN CONTEXT How the US Centennial of 1876 changed quilting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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