Early American silk patchwork quilts / Deborah E. Kraak -- Warp and weft of a lifetime / Donna-Belle Garvin -- Lucy Cleveland's Figure of rags / Paula Bradstreet Richter -- Heads were spinning / Frank G. White -- Laces of Ipswich, Massachusetts / Marta M. Cottrell -- Lace schools and lace factories / Richard M. Candee -- Mitten production in nineteenth-century downeast Maine / Deborah Pulliam -- Industrial opportunism / Adrienne D. Hood -- Textile legacy of a Narragansett planter / Gail B. Putnam -- Bandanna / Susan S. Bean -- Great leap / Lynne Zacek Bassett -- Designing women / Glendyne R. Wergland -- Luther Edgerton's cloathing books / Adrienne E. Saint-Pierre -- Ready-to-wear from the early nineteenth century / Adrienne E. Saint-Pierre -- Canterbury tale / Glee F. Krueger.