Barbara Brackman (born July 6, 1945) is a quilter, quilt historian and author. Barbara has written numerous books on

quilting Quilting is the process of joining a minimum of three layers of textile, fabric together either through stitching manually using a Sewing needle, needle and yarn, thread, or mechanically with a sewing machine or specialised longarm quilting ...

during the

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including ''Facts & Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery, Barbara Brackman's Civil War Sampler, Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Appliqué, America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890, Civil War Women, Clues in the Calico, Emporia Rose Appliqué Quilts, Making History–Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970,'' and ''Quilts from the Civil War,'' all published by C&T Publishing''.'' Her ''Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns'' contains more than 4000 pieced quilt patterns, derived from printed sources published between 1830 and 1970. She also wrote articles for Quilter's Newsletter starting in 1975, when she met Bonnie Leman in Denver. She was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame of Marion, Indiana in 2001.

Works

*''Patterns of Progress: Quilts in the Machine Age'', Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1997, *''Quilts from the Civil War''. C&T Publishing. 1997. . * * *''America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890''. C&T Publishing. 2004. . *''Making History–Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970''. C&T Publishing. 2008. . *''Clues in the Calico''. C&T Publishing. 2009. . * * * * *''Emporia Rose Appliqué Quilts''. C&T Publishing. 2014. .

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Works by or about Barbara Brackman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
1945 births Living people 21st-century American historians 20th-century American women artists Artists from Kansas American quilters 21st-century American women writers American art historians American women art historians 21st-century American women artists {{US-art-historian-stub