Olivia Joseph
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Feb
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Yeah.
So all quilting on the same quilt.
You'd bring your quilt top and it would get quilted at the bee.
You would go to a handful of them over the course of a year.
Didn't happen all the time.
Well, yes, frankly.
Many of the early suffragettes despised quilting because it was enforced domestic labor.
Why should I sit there for 100 hours and make a blanket for the family?
They hated it.
And so there was a kind of an ambience there.
And then others would go around to quilting groups and –
make a pitch for their causes, whether it was temperance or suffrage or yeah, all kinds of things happen because yes, it's groups of women getting together and there's no telling what they're going to say to each other.
I think sometimes it's just about taking a step back and looking closer at the materiality of the quilt.
And even if it's not necessarily information about the maker itself, you can get more context about the time it was made.
There's things that are very specific to maybe the way a fabric was made in the
the Victorian era.
There's maybe more natural dyes that are used.
And so understanding that those natural dyes are being used in the quilt, you can gain more context about some of the history, maybe the way that different fabrics are being produced at the time.
When I was doing some quilt research, I was looking at quilts that were made for the centennial, which for people who don't know, the centennial is the 100th year celebration of the signing of Declaration of Independence.
So that was a
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