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Quilts in Kentucky: Quilters' S.O.S. Save Our Stories

Research guide focused on quilt and quiltmaking resources available at UK Libraries and within the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Quilters' S.O.S. Save Our Stories

Quilters' S.O.S. - Save Our Stories (Q.S.O.S.) creates, through recorded interviews, a broadly accessible body of information concerning quiltmaking, both present-day and in living memory, for scholarship and exhibition. This grassroots project continually captures the voices and stories of quiltmakers and posts the transcribed interviews here. Our downloadable how-to Manual has everything you need to conduct your own Q.S.O.S. interviews. Our archive for the original audio recordings and photographs is the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. 

Find out more about this volunteer effort at The Alliance for American Quilts.