Introduction / Sue Prichard Making and using quilts in eighteenth-century Britain / Clare Browne Patchwork on the page / John Styles The governor's daughter / Clair Smith Complexity and context: nineteenth-century British quilts / Linda Parry Sewing soldiers / Christopher Breward Remember me: Ann West's coverlet / Jenny Lister Creativity and confinement / Sue Prichard Maintaining the craft: British quilt-making 1900-45 / Dorothy Osler Beneath the layers: conserving the "Pomegranate coverlet" / Joanne Hackett The Chapman coverlet: texts, myths and mysteries / Angela McShane, Ann Chrisite, Abigail Turner Negotiating space: fabric and the feminine 1945-2010 / Sue Prichard Stitchers in time and space: women in the long eighteenth century / Joanne Bailey His constant Penelope: epic tales and domestic narratives / Jacqueline Riding Quilts 1970-2010: catalogue / Claire Smith