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Jul 19, 1859 Wabash, Indiana, United States Died on 01 Jan 1956 (aged 96)
American quilter
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About Marie Webster
- Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 – August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since.
- She also ran the Practical Patchwork Company, a quilt pattern-making business from her home in Wabash, Indiana, for more than thirty years.
- Webster’s appliquéd quilts influenced modern quilting designs of the early twentieth century.
- Her quilts have been featured in museums and gallery exhibition in the United States and Japan.
- The Indianapolis Museum of Art holds the largest collection of her quilts in the United States.
- Webster was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1991.
- The Marie Webster House, her former residence in Marion, Indiana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993, and serves as the present-day home of the Quilters Hall of Fame and has been
