[Foreword] The Wilcox quilt collection is a carefully-tended group of Hawaiian and American quilts gathered and used by several generations of one Kauai family.

[Preface] Intended primarily as a permanent catalogue of a well-known collection of quilts, this book has come to include the stories of the family that collected them and the homes in which they were used.

Quilts and quilting were very much a part of everyday life in nineteenth-century New England.