New Pathways into Quilt History written by Kimberly Wulfert, www.antiquequiltdating.com

 Resume of Kimberly Wulfert, PhD
 Quilt Historian, Speaker, Quilter

• Lectures and workshops for museums, quilt guilds & festivals, and antique study groups, nationally. 1998 - present 
• Lecturer – "American Quilts?"," Conejo Valley Historical Society Semi-Annual membership meeting, Newbury Park, CA, April 28, 2008
• Lecturer – "Telling Women's history through Quilts," Federal Women's Program at the Naval Surface Warfare Center,
  Port Hueneme, CA, March 20, 2008
• Lecturer – "Training Session" about the Stagecoach Inn Museum's quilt collection, Stagecoach Inn Museum, Docent Meeting,
  Newbury Park, CA, March 18, 2008
• Teacher – "How to Date Antique Quilts, 1750-1950" - workshops, North Carolina Quilt Symposium, Mars Hill College, NC, May 24 - 27, 2007
• Teacher – 2005 "How to Do Quilt History Research"  - study group, American Quilt Study Group Conference, Denver, CO, October 2005
• Lecturer – “Quizzing the Quilt Historian,” American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA, August 2002
• Lecturer – “Textile History in New England,” Conejo Valley Historical Society, Newbury Park, CA, May 2002
• Fundraiser – Documenting museum and public family quilts, Stagecoach Inn Museum, Newbury Park, CA, 2001 & 2002
• Staff Trainer – regarding the museum’s textile collection of quilts and coverlets, Stagecoach Inn Museum, Newbury Park, CA, 2000
• Group Tour Guide - Antique Quilt Exhibit, Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena, CA, Fall 2000
• Lecturer –“Antique Quilts: A Closer Look,” with Charlotte Eckback on the care, dating & appreciation of quilts. Ventura Museum of History and Art exhibit “Handmade History: Quilts in Ventura County,” Ventura, CA, 1998
• Curator – “Women’s Symbols of Endurance: Quilts,” Gathered, dated, documented and wrote the exhibit signage for one permanent exhibit of 1870-1900 quilts and eight changing exhibits of quilts ranging from 1840-1960, Stagecoach Inn Museum, Newbury Park, CA, February – August 2002
• Curator – “Blocks of Time, 1870s to 1990s,” quilts gathered, and wrote signage for an exhibit of antique and contemporary quilts related to historically important families from the town. Santa Paula Union Oil Museum,
  Santa Paula, CA, September, 1999
• Teacher – ‘Early Textile Manufacturing in America,’ Elderhostel, series,
  four half-day classes, Ventura CA, 1999 –2001
• Teacher – spoke to textile class on early printing methods, Ventura Community College, Ventura, CA, Winter 2000
• Teacher – slide and lecture presentations at the Arizona State Quilt Guild Show, Phoenix, AZ, March 1999
• Teacher – workshops on dating textiles and quilts, Ventura County Community Adult Education Program, Ventura, CA 1999 - 2000
• Tour Leader – “A Quilter’s Journey Through New England Tours” educational quilt history tours that I planned and lead. New England, USA, 2000 – 2004

Authored Articles, Print Media:

• "John Hewson and the French Connection," The Magazine ANTIQUES, August 2008, Volume 174, No. 2, p78-85
• "The Man of Many Vases: John Hewson, Calico Printer," FOLK ART Magazine from the American Folk Art Museum, Fall, 2007, New York, p. 58-69.
• "Antique Quilt Dating Guides . . . by Style 1775 - 1900 and 1990 - 1950," with illustrations; Kimberly Wulfert Publishing, January 2007
• "The Journey of a Whitework Wedding Quilt," PieceWork Magazine,
  May/June 2006
• "Quizzing the Quilt Historian," Special Fabric and Quilts,
  Fall issue, 2004, Chitra Publications
• "California Quilts, 1840-1940," Blanket Statements, (newsletter magazine for the American Quilt Study Group), Spring 2003 issue
• "Quizzing The Quilt Historian," Continuous feature column, Traditional Quiltworks Magazine, January 2001 – March 2003
• "Chintz from the British Isles," Traditional Quiltworks Magazine, March 2002
• "French Fabrics," Traditional Quiltworks Magazine, May 2002
• "Palampores," Traditional Quiltworks Magazine, Jan 2002
• "17^th & 18^th Century Cotton Fabrics and the Quilts They Made,"
  Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds Newsletter (SCCQG)
  in 3 parts, Spring, Summer and Fall editions, 1998
• "The Cocheco Manufacturing Company," SCCQG Newsletter, in 2 parts, Summer and Fall editions, 1997
• Topical quilt history articles I have written for Nine-Patch News (two per month, 2001-2003) have been reprinted in quilt or educational organization’s newsletters across the nation and in Germany, Australia and England

Articles & Media Featuring My Contribution:

• "Quilting Traditions" - interviewed for the Ashville Citizen-Times
  article, June 3, 2007
• ""Happy Quilt" – a 1930s Depression quilt, with pattern for Les Nouvelles du Patchwork, June 2006 issue.
• "Mémoires d'enfance... par Christiane Billard   Childhood memories…"
  by Christiane Billard, translated of the French version Christiane wrote for
  Les Nouvelles du Patchwork, the magazine by France Patchwork, using some of my antique children's quilts collection; December 2005 issue.
• "Katie's Quilt " – a pattern for a bluework quilt, using old blocks with reproduction fabrics; Les Nouvelles du Patchwork, December 2005 issue.
• "John Hewson: Kensington’s Revolutionary War Hero," Ken Milano, Pennsylvania Legacies: Newsmagazine of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Nov. 2002, contributing writer on Hewson textiles (p. 18)
• "Tradition or Truth, Myths of the Underground Railroad," Barbara Brackman,
• "Quilts from the Civil War," book by Barbara Brackman, featured an antique quilt from my collection (pp 19 & 30)
• "Arts in Ventura County," Television guest appearance to discuss an exhibit, Adelphia Cable TV, January 2002
• "Making History – Reproduction in Chintz Quilts from 1790-1860," Dixie Webb,  Blanket Statements, featured a 1830s reproduction quilt I made, included detail photo, Spring 2002
• Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine, featured an antique quilt from my collection (pp. 40-1), November 1997

• Interviewed for and included in quilt history articles by several newspapers including The Baltimore Sun, Ventura County Star, Thousand Oaks Acorn, Scripps News Service out of Washington D.C., National Geographic Web page.

On-Line Publications:
There are many. This is a representative sample

• "Antique Quilt Dating Guides . . . by Style"  – www.antiquequiltdatingguides.com, Founded by Kimberly Wulfert, PhD, July 2006"
• New Pathways into Quilt History," www.antiquequiltdating.com, educational Web site. Content focuses on quilt history, textile manufacturing, dating antique fabric, current textile historian interviews, and review of reproduction fabric lines and books. Voted one of the best quilt Web sites of 2004 by Australian Patchwork & Quilting magazine and featured in their magazine. Founded by Kimberly Wulfert, PhD, Spring 2001. "
• Early Dyes: Madder, Indigo, Minerals," Fabrics.Net,
  www.fabrics.net, September 2002"
• Needles," History of Quilts (www.womenfolk.com/historyofquilts/), July 2002
• "Early Cotton Quilts," Cranston /VIP Textiles, Inc.
  www.cranstonvillage.com, 1998
• Historian Columnist for Nine-Patch News, bi-monthly newsletter on AOL’s main page or subscription-based to non- AOL users, 2001 to November 2003

Exhibited Quilts - my antique quilts or quilts I made
(Antique quilts from my collection have been loaned nationwide since the 1990s.)

• "Sawtooth Quilts, New and Old" exhibit at the Museum of American Quilts, Paducah KY, Indigo & White, ca 1860, NY, March – May 2008
• “From Dust Bowl to Salad Bowl”, National John Steinbeck Center, Depression era textiles and items, Salinas, CA, September 2005 – February 2006 
• "Power for Change, Quilting & the Sewing machine,” Museum of the American Quilter's Society (MAQS) exhibit, A 1920s machine quilted sateen quilt, Paducah, KY, March 13 – July 3, 2004
• Four 19^th century Log Cabin quilts in an exhibit accompanying a fundraiser for the Redland’s Historical Society, Redlands, CA, May 8, 2004
• Primedia Gallery, corporate headquarters of Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine & McCall’s Magazine, Golden, CO, November 2002 – January 2003
• "21^st Annual San Diego Quilt Show," San Diego Convention Center,
  September 2002
• "Quilt America!," Indianapolis, IN, July 2002    
• M. F. Trahern Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN,  
  February – March 2001
• Pacific International Quilt Festival, – won honorable mention
  Santa Clarita Convention Center, Santa Clarita, CA, 1997
• Ojai Fiber Arts Show, – won 1st and 3^rd place, consecutively,
  Ojai, CA, 1994 and 1995