Presentations
Virtual and In-person presentations available!
Marie Webster
Marie Webster was an influential quilt designer in the early 1900s. Her floral appliqué designs, created at the height of the Arts & Crafts movement, are still widely appreciated and imitated today, more than a century after her first designs were published. This 30 - 45 minute presentation details how Marie got started in the quilt business, how her designs were unique at the time, and what her patterns and kits included.
This presentation is available for your guild virtually or in-person. $300. Travel costs will also be included for in-person presentations. Contact us today!
Fabrics in the United States:
1750s to 1950s
As you know, the fabrics available to us today have a huge impact on our clothes and the quilts we make. So it was in the past. This presentation looks at the fabrics from Colonial days to the 1950s and answers some of those pressing questions you may have. Where did the term "chintzy" come from? How do you pronounce "toile?" What did kids think of wearing feed sack underwear?
This presentation is available for your guild virtually or in-person. $300. Travel costs will also be included for in-person presentations. Contact us today!
Legacies of the Honorees
The Quilters Hall of Fame celebrates quilting as an art form by honoring the lives and accomplishments of those people that have left legacies to the world of quilting. They are a very diverse group of people, men women, artists, authors, historians, curators, researchers, TV personalities, business owners. Most were quilters, but some never made a quilt. This presentation will describe a few of the honorees and the legacies they have left to us.
This presentation is available for your guild virtually or in-person. $300. Travel costs will also be included for in-person presentations. Contact us today!
Group Tour
We would love to welcome your group to The Quilters Hall of Fame. Group tours include a presentation on Marie Webster, her house and business, and on the history of The Quilters Hall of Fame. Afterwards the group is free to roam the galleries, enjoy the quilts and shop in our gift shop.
Maximum group size is 40.
$6 per person.
Collections Tour
Take a behind the scenes tour of TQHF's Collections Room. The items we look at can be based on your interests.What would you like to see? Marie Webster's Crazy Quilt? Antique Fabrics from Arnold Savage's fabric samples? Ruby Short McKim's syndicated embroidery designs? Collections Tours are limited to five persons or fewer. $6 per person.
Contact us and let's put together a custom tour for you!