Save Our Stories - Interviews With Quilters
From Press Release - Asheville, North Carolina, March 18, 2009
The oral history project of the Alliance for American Quilts, Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories, has surpassed the milestone of 900 online interviews.
This is an impressive milestone for a project that will celebrate its 10th anniversary this fall. The growth rate for this groundbreaking online archive continues to be impressive: the most recent 100 interviews have been posted since September, 2008. But the point isn't just quantity.
The transcribed interviews are meant to reflect the sophistication and diversity of quilting in American today, to provide to historians, collectors, quilt-lovers and quiltmakers themselves, a broadly accessible archive of modern-day quilting. The interview subjects range from the unknown to the famous, and cover a wide spectrum of techniques. There are quiltmakers representating every state and multiple foreign countries, ranging in age from 5 to 99.
Q.S.O.S. was created as a grassroots effort to document, preserve and share today's quiltmaking history as it happens. As such, the Alliance has always invited anyone interested in participating to join the project, and more than 200 individuals have conducted interviews to date. All Q.S.O.S. interviews are archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, which attests to their importance as significant oral histories.
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