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Shelly Zegart is a recognized expert on American quilts. She collects, curates exhibitions, writes, lectures about, and sells fine quilts. From the affordable to the extraordinary, she can find it for you. She has curated many exhibits here and abroad, and lectures on all aspects of quilt history and aesthetics. Zegart has built private and corporate collections around the world and for more than 15 years, she has been a member of The Appraisers Association of America.
All of the quilts that we sell are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. All restorations are noted. We always have many more quilts in stock and can fill your special request.
Shelly purchases only extraordinary quilts in excellent condition. Please e-mail Shelly if you have quilts that you are interested in selling.
Shelly also takes special quilts on consignment to be sold. Please email Shelly for more information if you interested in consigning a quilt.
This site is updated frequently and new quilts are added. Please bookmark this site and return frequently.
News
New quilts added!
New quilts were added in the Great Antique Quilts collection on November 22, 2008.
Catalogue now available.
«Shelly Zegart: Passionate About Quilts» catalogue beautifully documents the retrospective exhibition of her more than thirty years work with quilts held at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, Kentucky (September 4 – October 26, 2008). Fifty color photographs compliment the essays and articles from Zegart on state quilt projects and their history, contemporary quilt collecting, exhibitions, African-American quilt scholarship and a historical look at 19th century women, politics and quilts. The thoughtful introduction by Dr. Bernard L. Herman, Department of Art History, University of Delaware, provides insight into this complex woman and her accomplishments.
Order the sixty-page soft cover, comb bound volume ($14.95 plus US shipping Priority mail $4.75; International shipping $12.95) from the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft.
Two new articles were added to the 'Articles' section of the Website.
"Myth and Methodology"
Just released and available to download - Shelly Zegart's groundbreaking article picking apart African American Quilt Scholarship, published in January 08-Selvedge , an international textile magazine. This article is a benchmark in understanding the problems with myth and methodology in this highly charged arena beginning in the late 1970's.
"Old Maid, New Woman"
In times of high interest in politics in general and womens' roles and choices in specific , it is more than time for Shelly Zegart's «Old Maid, New Woman» article to be publicly available for the first time since it was originally publsihed in Quilt Digest in 1986. Susan Elizabeth Daggett, for whom the quilt was made to celebrate her 30th birthday, chose to remain single in the 1870's, as did a surprising number of her friends. Their work with the Young ladies Aid society in Canandaigua, NY, and their enduring friendship through the years was a force for women's activism and choices.