Marie Webster, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marie Webster

American quilter

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1859

Place of Birth: Wabash, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1956

Profession: writer, entrepreneur, designer, quilter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 – August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since.
She also ran the Practical Patchwork Company, a quilt pattern-making business from her home in Wabash, Indiana, for more than thirty years.
Webster’s appliquéd quilts influenced modern quilting designs of the early twentieth century.
Her quilts have been featured in museums and gallery exhibition in the United States and Japan.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art holds the largest collection of her quilts in the United States.
Webster was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1991.
The Marie Webster House, her former residence in Marion, Indiana, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993, and serves as the present-day home of the Quilters Hall of Fame and has been