Learn how to use the Quilt Index to research quilt history, discover inspirational ideas for your own creative work, preserve your own quilt history, and to teach others about quilts and their makers. The Quilt Index, an extraordinary freely-accessible digital humanities resource, is already preserving images and stories of nearly 100,000 quilts and their makers from dispersed private and public collections around the world. 

Marsha MacDowell, Ph.D. is Professor and Curator of Folk Arts and Quilt Studies, Michigan State University Museum and Director of The Quilt Index. She has authored numerous publications on quilt history. Beth Donaldson has been a quiltmaker for over 40 years, has authored 4 publications on quilting, and is the Associate Director of the Quilt Index.