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.
Webster was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1991..
The Indianapolis Museum of Art holds the largest collection of her quilts in the United States.
Her quilts have been featured in museums and gallery exhibition in the United States and Japan.
Webster\'s appliquéd quilts influenced modern quilting designs of the early twentieth century.
She also ran the Practical Patchwork Company, a quilt pattern-making business from her home in Wabash, Indiana, for more than thirty years.
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
