Marie Daugherty Webster was a quilt designer, businesswoman, and the author of the first American book about quilting, Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them, originally published in 1915, and reprinted many times since.
Background
Marie Webster was born in Wabash, Indiana to Josiah and Minerva Daugherty. Although Webster learned the art of fine hand sewing from her mother during her childhood and was a favorite pastime of hers, she did not start designing quilts until she was in her 50s.
Career
The latest illustrated edition was published in 2009. Webster was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1991. Her residence in Marion, Indiana, United States of America, the Marie Webster House, is now home of the Quilters" Hall of Fame and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
Foreign most of her adult life, Webster lived in Marion, Indiana.
Her husband died in 1938. She died in 1956 at the age of 97.
Webster was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1991. Her residence in Marion, Indiana, United States of America, the Marie Webster House, is now home of the Quilters" Hall of Fame and has been designated a National Historic Landmark.
Her quilts are featured in museums around the world, in cities including Tokyo and Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art holds the largest collection of her quilts in the United States.
The 1990 edition includes a biography of Marie Webster, additional color photos, notes and a bibliography.