{"id":7449,"date":"2020-04-21T22:08:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=7449"},"modified":"2020-04-30T16:21:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:21:28","slug":"fall-2019-graduate-research-winner-katherine-williams-odonnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/fall-2019-graduate-research-winner-katherine-williams-odonnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Williams-O&#8217;Donnell, 2019 Graduate Research Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Rhode Island\u2019s Historic Textile and Costume Collection contains one of the earliest known examples of quilting, a recently donated collection of disarticulated English quilt blocks dated from 1697.&nbsp; The blocks were originally part of a larger quilt that&nbsp;was made, moved through space, possessed by various actors, and ultimately disassembled over the course of its life, with pieces now residing in various museums around the US.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By examining the role of dealers and donors in the process of the object\u2019s disarticulation and dispersion, \u201cThe 1697 Quilt Blocks: An Object\u2019s Life and History&#8221; will show&nbsp;how an individual\u2019s interaction with an object can influence our understanding of history. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new methodology for the examination of disarticulated objects and digital reconstruction of the quilt top will allow for a complete examination of the original work, including overall designs and patterns, and provide a basis for comparison to other extant examples, furthering knowledge of early quilting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Rhode Island\u2019s Historic Textile and Costume Collection contains one of the earliest known examples of quilting, a recently donated collection of disarticulated English quilt blocks dated from 1697.&nbsp; The blocks were originally part of a larger quilt that&nbsp;was made, moved through space, possessed by various actors, and ultimately disassembled over the course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[198,189,162,159,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-198","category-fall","category-graduate-grants","category-grants","category-studentnews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7817,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions\/7817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}