«Common Threads Through Time: Quilts of the Gloucester County Historical Society

Historic Quilts Dating from the 1700s to the 1900s.

The Gloucester County Historical Society's new book details its extensive quilt collection dating back to when the county was one of the earliest places where European colonists settled. The book includes large photographs and detailed descriptions of each quilt and the local people who made and passed them along from generation to generation as family heirlooms.

The collection includes fine examples of quilts in the signature/autograph/friendship, crazy quilts, drunkard’s path, grandmother’s floral garden, Jacob’s ladder, log cabin, nine patch, postage stamp, and yo-yo styles and patterns — just to name a few. Aside from the artistic beauty of the quilts, the accompanying provenance, maker and family ownership details in the book provide valuable information for genealogical researchers and other historians.