Scholar Lynne Bassett presents on quilts and costume in this lecture from the International Quilt Study Center & Museum's 2013 Symposium, "Quilts in Context: The Making of Meaning."
Lynne Zacek Bassett is an independent scholar specializing in New England's historic costume and textiles. From 1995-2000 she was the curator of textiles and fine arts at Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, MA. Since going independent, Lynne has undertaken a number of large projects. Her exhibition and catalogue at the Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, Modesty Died When Clothes Were Born: Costume in the Life and Literature of Mark Twain won the Costume Society of America's Richard Martin Award for Excellence in 2005. Since 2007, Lynne has been the guest curator of textiles and costumes for the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford where she has been responsible for six exhibitions. In addition to her exhibition publications, Lynne has written for The Magazine Antiques, The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, White House History, and PieceWork magazine. Her most recent publication, Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth, for which she was editor and primary author, was published by the University Press of New England in 2009. Forthcoming is Homefront & Battlefield: Civil War Quilts in Context, co-authored by Lynne and Madelyn Shaw, published by the American Textile History Museum of Lowell, Massachusetts. Lynne’s lectures for institutions including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Colonial Williamsburg, the American Folk Art Museum, the H. F. DuPont Winterthur Museum, and Historic Deerfield have covered a range of topics in the field of early costume, needlework, quilts and other bed covers.