Links to full-text online versions of selected articles

 "Contemporary Oneida Beadwork: Revitalized Identity Through an 'Adopted' Art Form,"  Textile Society of America Proceedings, 2020
digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2145&context=tsaconf

 "The Push-Pull of Doilies: Revered, Reviled and Reconceived," Piecework Magazine,
Nov.-Dec, 2017. pieceworkmagazine.com/push-pull-doily/

"Deep-Seated Associations: Textile Threads in Language, Myths, Fairy Tales, and Novels," Piecework Magazine, Winter, 2018. pieceworkmagazine.com/deep-seated-associations-textile-threads-in-language-myths-fairy-tales-and/

“The Fiber of Our Lives: A Conceptual Framework for Looking at Textiles’ Meanings,” Textile Society of America Proceedings, 2010  digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/18/.   Also reprinted online at www.fibre2fashion.com/industry-article/44/4318/the-fiber-of-our-lives1.asp   

"The Hand of the Maker: The Importance of Understanding Textiles From the Inside Out,” in Textile Society of Aereica Prioceedings, 2003. digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1388&context=tsaconf

“Embodiment, Community Building, and Aesthetic Saturation in 'Restroom World,' a Backstage Women's Space," Journal of American Folklore (Fall 2003): 444-464.www.researchgate.net/publication/236829098_Embodiment_Community_Building_and_Aesthetic_Saturation_in_Restroom_World_a_Backstage_Women%27s_Space

"The Souvenir: Messenger of the Extraordinary," The Journal of Popular Culture, Winter, 1986. www.researchgate.net/publication/229707257_The_Souvenir_Messenger_of_the_Extraordinary



Selection of other Articles, Essays and Book Chapters

  • "Beading Culture," Review of Exhibit in Watrous Gallery, Madison, Journal of American Folklore, Issue 519, 2017.
  • “Knitting for the Soldiers During the Civil War,” Knitting Traditions, Spring 2014.
  • “Charity Fancywork of the Civil War Era,” PieceWork, September/October 2013.
  • “Cloth and Consciousness: Our Deep Connections,” essay in Art and Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art From Klimt to the Present, Markus Bruderlin, ed. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Germany), 2013.
  • (With Laurel Horton), “Turn-of-the-Century Quilts: Embodied Objects in a Web of Relationships,” Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950. London: Ashgate, 2009, pp. 93-110.
  •  “Regularly Irregular: Crazy Quilts,” essay and catalog entries on Crazy Quilts for American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940, Marin Hansen and Patricia B. Crews, eds. International Quilt Study Center and J.P. Getty Foundation, 2009.
  • “Points of View” (artist profile), Robert Hillestad: A Textiles Journey. Lincoln: Friends of the Hillestad Gallery, 2008, pp. 77-84.
  • “Crazy Quilts as an Expression of the Fairyland Ideal,” Uncoverings 27 (2006): 29-58. (Journal of the American Quilt Study Group).
  • “Showing the Colors: America,” essay in Wearing Propaganda: Civilian Textiles on the Home Front; America, Great Britain, and Japan 1931-1945, ed. Jacqueline Atkins.  New York and New Haven: Bard Graduate Center with Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 239-257.
  • “Scrapbook Houses for Paper Dolls: Creative Expression, Aesthetic Elaboration and Bonding in the Female World,” in Katherine Ott, Susan Tucker and Patricia Buckler, eds., The Scrapbook in American Life. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006, 116-134.
  • “Costumed Representations of Early America: A Gendered Portrayal, 1850-1940,” Dress 30 (2003): 3-20.
  • "'One of the Most Valuable Fabrics': The Seemingly Limitless Promise of Crepe Paper, 1890-1935," Ars Textrina, 31 (1999): 107-144.
  • “Deborah Einbender: Faces and Universal Forms” (artist profile), Ornament 23, no.4 (June, 2000): 40-43.
  • “Sonya Clark: References to Metaphor and History,” (artist profile), Fiberarts, Jan/Feb. 1999.
  •  "Spinning Wheels, Samplers and the Modern Priscilla: The Images and Paradoxes of Colonial Revival  Needlework," Winterthur Portfolio 33 Nos. 2/3 (Summer/Autumn 1998): 163-194.
  • "Woman's Domestic Body: The Conceptual Conflation of Women's Dress and Interiors in the Industrial Age, Winterthur Portfolio 31, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 281-302.
  • "Intimacy and Objects: A Proxemic Analysis of Gender-Based Response to the Material World," in Katherine Martinez and Kenneth Ames, eds. The Material Culture of Gender/The Gender of Material Culture, Winterthur Museum with University Press of New England, 1997, pp. 237-252.
  • "'They Don't Wear Wigs Here': Issues and Complexities in the Development of an Exhibition," (review essay) American Quarterly 47 No. 1. (Spring 1995):  119-142.
  • "Cozy, Charming and Artistic: Stitching Together the Home Environment," in Jessica Foy and Karal Ann Marling, ed. The Arts and the American Home, 1890-1930. Knoxville:  University of Tennessee Press, 1994, pp. 124-148.
  • "Dressing the Colonial Past: Nineteenth Century New Englanders Look Back," in Patricia Cunningham and Susan Lab, eds. Dress in American Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993, pp. 109-139.
  • "Shaker Fancy Goods: Women's Work and Presentation of Self in the Community Context in the Victorian Era," in Lou Kern, Wendy Chiemelewski and Marlyn Klee, eds. Women's Experience in Historic Communities. Syracuse University Press, 1993, pp. 89-103.
  • "The Woodland Indian Bandolier Bag: Cultural Adaption and Interaction," Dress 19 (1992): 69-81.
  • "Meanings in Mid-Nineteenth Century Dress: Images From New England Women's Writings," Clothing and Textiles Research Journal 10:3 (1992), 44-53.
  • "American Denim: Blue Jeans and Their Multiple Layers of Meaning," in Patricia Cunningham and Susan Lab, eds., Dress and Popular Culture. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1991, pp. 31-45.
  • "Victorian Fancy Goods: Another Reappraisal of Shaker Material Culture," Winterthur Portfolio 25:2/3 (1990): 111-129.
  • "Material Culture in a Popular Vein: Perspectives on Studying Artifacts of Mass Culture," in Ray B. Browne and Marshall Fishwick, eds. Symbiosis: Popular Culture and Other Fields. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988, pp. 170-176.
  • "Victorian Fancywork in the American Home: Fantasy and Accommodation," in Marilyn Motz and Pat Browne, eds., Making the American Home: Middle Class Women and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1940. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988, pp. 48-68.
  • "Textiles and Clothing of the Civil War: A Portrait for Contemporary Understanding," Clothing and Textiles Research Journal 5:3 (1987): 41-47.
  • "Fossilized Fashion: 'Old Fashioned' Dress as a Symbol of a Separate Work-Oriented Identity," Dress 13 (1987): 49-60.
  • "A Furor of Benevolence: The Evolution and Influence of the Northwest Sanitary Fairs," Chicago History 15:4 (1987): 48-65.
  • "Dress and Dress-up at the Fundraising Fair," Dress 12 (1986): 61-72.
  • "Aesthetic Meanings in Women's Turn-of-the-Century Fundraising Fairs," Turn-of-the-Century Women 3:1 (1986): 15-28.
  • "The Whimsey and its Contexts: A Multi-Cultural Model of Material Culture Study," Journal of American Culture 9:1 (1986): 61-76.
  • "Dress in American Communal Societies," Communal Societies 5 (1985): 122-136.
  • "The Fiber of Our Lives: Trends and Attitudes about Women's Textile Art as Reflected in the Literature in America, 1876-1976," Journal of Popular Culture 10:3 (1976): 548-559.


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