a_s1618_04_tape06 | Lavinia Mathis interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Field recordings Needlework Oral narratives Quilts Quilting Textile processes African Americans Sewing Decorative arts Interviews | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Lavinia Mathis interview for the Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project
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- 1988-08-23
- Description
- One audio cassette. Jacksonville native and former teacher Mathis talks about quilting in her family. She discusses growing up in Jacksonvile; learning quilting from her grandmother, a dress maker for the Canova family; teaching quilting to others; volunteering; her grandmother's dress making techniques; technique and process for making quilts; her mother's quilting; sources of ideas for patterns; use of quilts; quilting groups; and publicity for her quilts.
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a_s1685_05_tape10 | Margaret Isom interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Quilting Field recordings Interviews Oral narratives Quilts Needlework Decorative arts Textile processes | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s1664_07_tape57 | Recording of the Florida Star Quilters Guild | Sound | Quiltmakers Needleworkers Fieldwork Needlework Domestic arts Quilting Quilts Oral history Sewing Family history Interviews Life histories Personal experience narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Recording of the Florida Star Quilters Guild
- Date
- 1993-12-02
- Description
- Two audio cassettes. Recording of the Florida Star Quilters Guild, a 12-membber Orlando-based quilting club that originated in the Winter Park shop, the Attic Trunk. Seven of the members were present for the interviews. They discuss different quilting styles (Hawaiian, family quilting,) men and quilting, family histories, and the origins of the group. The interview took place at the Orange County Historical Museum.
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a_s1685_04_tape11 | Ruth Brill demonstration for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Quiltmakers Needlework Field recordings Quilts Textile processes Machine sewing Interviews Oral narratives Elementary schools School children Students | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
a_s1685_04_tape09 | Ruth Brill interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project | Sound | Quilting Needlework Field recordings Quilts Textile processes Machine sewing Interviews Oral narratives | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Ruth Brill interview for the Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project
- Date
- 1986-09-02
- Description
- Two audio recordings. Brill was from Wisconsin, where she taught school. In the interview, she discusses learning to quilt; teaching; receiving a degree in art; exhibiting her work; on her marriage; using a sewing machine; 4-H clubs; types of quilting; and teaching the skill.
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a_s1576_75_c99-087 | Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1) | Sound | Quiltmakers Needleworkers Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Personal experience narratives Needlework Quilting Quilts Textile arts Design Storytelling | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Sunday performances at the 1999 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Narrative Stage) (Tape 1)
- Date
- 1999-05-30
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. Nancy Morgan discusses her book and her history with the Florida Folk Festival as a quilting demonstrator. She also discusses her personal history, quilting groups at Stephen Foster Memorial Park and quilt designs. She recites the poem, "Drinking from My Saucer", by an anonymous author.
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a_s1576_64_c96-086 | Sunday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 9) | Sound | Quiltmakers Cooks Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Festivals Special events Performing arts Oral performance Oral narratives Personal experience narratives Quilted goods Quilting Quilts Needlework Soap Cookery (Jelly) Jelly Cooking and dining Food | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_audio.jpg |
Sunday program at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival (Folklife Area Narrative Stage) (Tape 9)
- Date
- 1996-05-26
- Description
- One audio cassette tape. McKenzie served as emcee. Nancy Morgan discusses traditional foodways of northern Florida and quilting. She talks about her family background, her cookbooks, the recipe for "corncob jelly" and how her cookbook developed. She also talks about wine making and peach brandy. She tells about her quilting, patterns she uses, how she learned to quilt and her White Springs Quilt. Other traditional crafts she covers are lye soap making, split-rail fence making, mayhaw and elderberry jelly.
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1978 Florida Folk Festival photographs | 1978 Florida Folk Festival photographs | Still Image | African Americans Chairs Furniture Cornhusk craft Material culture Demonstrations Folk festivals Folklore revival festivals Restaurants Cabinetwork Carpentry Woodwork Quilting Quilts Textile arts Chair caning Quiltmakers Carpenters Cabinetmakers Furniture maker Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
1978 Florida Folk Festival photographs
- Date
- 1978-05
- Description
- Five black and white prints. P79-679 Rufus Adams of Mayo demontrating his corn shuck bottom chairs to crowds. P79-681 Queen Udell and her yo-yo quilt. Yo-yo quilt were quilts made from several circular swatches of cloth swen together. P79-682 Cabinet maker Kjell Lunestad of St. Augustine. P79-683 Reverend Thurlow Reed of Key West playing music with a conch shell. P79-684 Jay Abner in front of his restaurant in White Springs. Karl Holland of the Florida Dept. of Commerce took the photographs. He often worked for the Florida Folk Festival, in which he woudl send all unused Commerce photos to the Florida Folklife Program.
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Activities at the 1986 Fourth of July celebration | Activities at the 1986 Fourth of July celebration | Still Image | Holidays and festivals Fourth of July Special events Children Games Contests Watermelons Food Quilts Music performance Stringband music Cakewalk (Dance) Dancers Musicians | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Activities at the 1986 Fourth of July celebration
- Date
- 1986-07-04
- Description
- Sixty-seven color slides. Each year, the Florida Folklife Program offered traditional music and games for Independence Day at the Stephen Foster Memorial. Folklorist Roller can be seen in slide S86-151.
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Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch | Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch | Still Image | Quiltmakers Material culture Textiles Craft Quilts Textile arts Domestic arts Quilting Decorative arts Design Porches | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_photo.jpg |
Alma Bailey quilting on her front porch
- Date
- 1986-03
- Description
- Seven color slides. Created as research for the Craft Demonstration Area of the 1987 Florida Folk Festival. 1186: Quilt hanging on front porch; 1220 - 1225: Alma with her quilts.
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