{{short description|American art historian (born 1945)}} {{other people||Brackman}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
'''Barbara Brackman''' (born July 6, 1945) is a quilter, quilt historian and author.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Barbara+Brackman&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C44&as_sdtp= |title=Barbara Brackman |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref>
<!-- Needs a source: Well known for her authority on quilts of the Underground Railroad,{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}} -->Barbara has written numerous books on quilting during the Civil War including ''Facts & Fabrications: Unraveling the History of Quilts and Slavery, Barbara Brackman's Civil War Sampler, Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Appliqué, America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890, Civil War Women, Clues in the Calico, Emporia Rose Appliqué Quilts, Making History–Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970,'' and ''Quilts from the Civil War,'' all published by C&T Publishing''.'' Her ''Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns'' contains more than 4000 pieced quilt patterns, derived from printed sources published between 1830 and 1970.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Barbara-Brackman |title=Barbara Brackman |publisher= britannica.com |accessdate=August 11, 2017}}</ref>
She also wrote articles for Quilter's Newsletter starting in 1975, when she met Bonnie Leman in Denver.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexander |first=Karen B. |date=2001 |title=Barbara Brackman – The Quilters Hall of Fame |url=https://quiltershalloffame.net/barbara-brackman/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250125052616/https://quiltershalloffame.net/barbara-brackman/ |archive-date=2025-01-25 |access-date=2025-06-19 |website=Quilters Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}</ref>
She was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame of Marion, Indiana in 2001.<ref name="DailyTimesJuly192009" /><ref name="HallFameMarionIndiana" />
==Works== *''Patterns of Progress: Quilts in the Machine Age'', Autry Museum of Western Heritage, 1997, {{ISBN|9781882880034}} *''Quilts from the Civil War''. C&T Publishing. 1997. {{ISBN|978-1-57120-033-4}}. *{{cite book|title=Prairie Flower: A Year on the Plains|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHPgyvWOiiYC|year=2001|publisher=Kansas City Star Books|isbn=978-0-9712920-0-0}} *{{cite book|title=Women of Design: Quilts in the Newspaper|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tR7uXD5-QjcC|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Kansas City Star Books|isbn=978-0-9746012-9-8}} *''America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890''. C&T Publishing. 2004. {{ISBN|978-1-57120-255-0}}. *''Making History–Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970''. C&T Publishing. 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-57120-453-0}}. *''Clues in the Calico''. C&T Publishing. 2009. {{ISBN|978-1-57120-918-4}}. *{{cite book|title=Facts & Fabrications-Unraveling the History of Quilts & Slavery: 8 Projects - 20 Blocks - First-Person Accounts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h_ntmoycHW4C|date=5 November 2010|publisher=C&T Publishing Inc|isbn=978-1-60705-386-6}} *{{cite book|title=Civil War Women: Their Quilts Their Role|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pg043ETk1gAC|date=5 November 2010|publisher=C&T Publishing Inc|isbn=978-1-57120-809-5}} *{{cite book|author=Barbara Brackman|title=Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia Of Applique: 2000 Traditional and Modern Designs, Updated History of Applique, New! 5 Quilt Projects|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XuDTrxwnEMC|date=5 November 2010|publisher=C&T Publishing Inc|isbn=978-1-60705-100-8}} *{{cite book|title=Barbara Brackman's Civil War Sampler: 50 Quilt Blocks with Stories from History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76dG4MpTjuQC|date=1 December 2012|publisher=C&T Publishing Inc|isbn=978-1-60705-567-9}} *''Emporia Rose Appliqué Quilts''. C&T Publishing. 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-60705-890-8}}.
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<ref name="DailyTimesJuly192009">The Daily Times ''[http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20090719/WOMEN/307199986 "Waldvogel inducted into The Quilters Hall of Fame"]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}'', Blount County, July 19, 2009.</ref> <ref name="HallFameMarionIndiana">The Daily Times ''[http://www.quiltershalloffame.net/honorees "Quilters Hall of Fame"]'', Marion, Indiana.</ref>
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==External links== * {{official website|http://www.barbarabrackman.com}} *[http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85-314298 Works by or about Barbara Brackman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)]
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