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Companion to an International Quilt Museum (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) exhibition series, this catalog reexamines the half-century impact of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1971 exhibition, Abstract Design in American Quilts, on the realms of fine art, craft, and the study of quilts and other forms of material culture.

Pictorial compilation and essays showcasing and discussing recent work by Nancy Crow, premier artist in the quilt medium.

Traces the origins and the commercial development of broderie de Marseille needlework. During the seventeenth century these supple, all-white corded and quilted furnishings - from bedcovers to quilted bodices and caps - grew out of the thriving textile trade centered on France's Mediterranean port of Marseille as adaptations of popular foreign textile products.