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Quilt Index app for iPhone and iPad


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Developer: Michigan State University - MATRIX
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.2.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 14 Dec 2010
App size: 3.16 Mb

Thousands of quilts at your fingertips with Quilt Index To Go. Support the Quilt Index (www.quiltindex.org) and view historic and contemporary quilts straight from the Quilt Index database on your phone or tablet.

NOTE: Were de-bugging the share features. Please enjoy the quilts until we can release the social sharing fix!

Get detailed information about pattern names, dates, quiltmakers, and the collections that contributed them. Share quilts with friends directly from the app.

Quilt Index To Go brings you a unique quilt every day. This simple and straight forward format allows you to scroll endlessly through the more than 50,000 quilts in the Quilt Index contributed by more than 40 museums, libraries, and documentation projects. You can follow links to their detailed collections records on the Quilt Index for even more information.

Features:
- a quilt a day from the Quilt Index (http://www.quiltindex.org)
- browsing page to scroll endlessly through 50,000+ quilt records
- detailed quilt record information, when documented, such as:
- quilt pattern names
- quiltmaker names
- dates and/or date ranges
- collection
- links to full information on the world wide web record in the Quilt Index
-share with your friends directly from the app

Quilt Index contributing partners already online or accepted for partnership include:
*The Quilt Alliance
*American Quilt Study Group
*Blue Ridge Parkway Folklife Project Collection and Lands End All-American Quilt Contest Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
*Connecticut Quilt Search
*Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Museum Permanent Collection
*Florida Quilt Documentation Project and Sunshine State Quilt Guild
*Founders Collection, Oh Wow! Miniature Quilt Collection, and Paul D. Pilgrim Collection, National Quilt Museum (Museum of the American Quilters Society)
*Hawaiian Quilt Research Project
*Heritage Quilt Project of New Jersey (Rutgers University Libraries - Special Collections and University Archives)
*Illinois Quilt Research Project (quilts owned by Illinois State Museum)
*Indiana State Museum and Indiana Quilt Documentation Project
*International Quilt Study Center & Museum (selected international quilts indexed)
*Iowa Quilt Research Project (IQRP)
*Kansas Quilt Project at Kansas State Historical Society
*Kent County, Maryland, Quilt Documentation Project
*Kentucky Quilt Project, Inc.
*Louisiana Quilt Documentation of the Louisiana Regional Folklife Program at Louisiana Tech University
*Maine Quilt Heritage Project
*Mary Barton Collection (State Historical Society of Iowa)
*Michigan State University Museum Collection
*Michigan Quilt Project at MSU Museum
*Minnesota Quilt Project (Minnesota Quilters Inc)
*The Mary Gasperik Quilts
*Mountain Heritage Center
*Nebraska Quilt Project (Lincoln Quilters Guild) at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
*New England Quilt Museum
*North Carolina Quilt Documentation Project at North Carolina Museum of History
*Presidential Libraries and Museums Quilt Documentation Project
*Quilts of Tennessee (Tennessee State Library and Archives)
*Rhode Island Quilt Documentation Project (University of Rhode Island)
*Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
*Royal Alberta Museum
*Signature Quilt Project and Pilot Public Submission
*South Africa Quilt History Project
*State Historical Society of Iowa
*Texas Quilt Search
*West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search, Inc.
*Western Pennsylvania Quilt Documentation Project
*Wilene Smith Private Collection of Quilt Ephemera
*Winedale Quilt Collection, Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin,
*Wisconsin Quilt History Project
*Wyoming Quilt Project, Inc.

Plus many museums and historical societies included in the documentation collections above.