Interview with Ted Storm van Weelden, November 2, 2001
Project: Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: International Quilt Festival
Interview Summary
Storm van Weelden talks about being depressed due to a health problem and deciding to make a black quilt. She talks about how this quilt, along with successful surgery, bought her joy. Storm van Weelden talks about owing to America everything that she knows about quilting. She references her background as a textile teacher and her desire to know more about quilting as well as organizations and individuals in the United States that taught her many techniques. Storm van Weelden talks about quilting in Holland and about her textile education. She mentions the importance in quilting of friends and sharing of knowledge.Interview Accession
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Quilts--Meaning Textile teachers Quilting teachers Black Delft Holland Dutch The NetherlandsInterview LC Subject
Quilting Quilts Quilts--Design Quilts--Netherlands Quilts--Techniques Quilts--EducationInterview Rights
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Weelden, Ted Storm van Interview by Jana Hawley. 02 Nov. 2001. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Weelden, T.S. (2001, November 02). Interview by J. Hawley. Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: International Quilt Festival. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Weelden, Ted Storm van, interview by Jana Hawley. November 02, 2001, Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: International Quilt Festival, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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