Latimer Quilt & Textile Center

Main Entry | What to Expect

Welcome! Upon arrival through the main entry, there is the front counter. You will be greeted and asked to sign our "visitor registration" and given a brief explanation of the mission here at Latimer. The main entry consists of the hallway to each room, restroom off to the left, kitchen off the right and the hallway filled with consignment items.

*(Consignment items are items made by member's of Latimer and are for sale. They can be found throughout the museum.)*

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Exhibit Hall & Research Library

Straight down from the main entry is the exhibit hall and research library. The exhibit changes out every two months and list of exhibits can be found using the this link: (https://www.latimerquiltandtextile.com/current-upcoming-exhibits)

The library contains books, many rare and out of print, a huge quilt pattern collection, a collection of newspaper needlework clippings, and a collection of pamphlets and magazines. In addition to quilting, hand weaving and spinning, there are also numerous works on traditional rug hooking, knitting, crocheting, tatting, embroidery of various types, basketry and other more esoteric uses of fiber as an expressive medium. These resources may be used on site only.

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West Room

The West Room contains spinning wheels and many Weaving looms that the Oregon Coast Fiber Artisans have works in progress.

Lessons can be arranged by appointment and are usually held on Tuesday or Friday. Click the link to email for more information.

East Room

Antique quilts from the Latimer Collection, along with contemporary and art quilts, are displayed in this room. A bank of glass-covered drawers containing mini exhibits of antique sewing notions, cigar silks, buttons and pins line one wall.

The East Room also serves as Latimer’s meeting space, where textile related groups and guilds can come together. Any group with a membership in the Latimer Center can use this space free of charge as long as no group is already meeting at the time requested.

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The LaRayne Woodward Quilt Repository

Built in 1996, the repository comes with conservatorial lighting, hermetic temperature control and museum space-saving storage fittings. Everything about its design is calculated to minimize the degradation of textiles. Collections are stored in acid free boxes. The repository has its own computer system and the Past Perfect data base program is used to catalogue Latimer collections. It is not open to the public but can be viewed by appointment.

Collections | The Latimer Center’s collection includes quilts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, quilt blocks, quilt templates and fabric samples. There are also clothing, hand- woven coverlets, looms, spinning wheels and other quilting and weaving textile tools and implements.

Bromleigh and Mary Louise Lamb Quilt Collection | This collection contains quilts from the Hall family, Faulders family, and Ella Hall Smithson and Mary Eliza Faulders. These quilts date from the mid 1800s to about 1930.

Daphne Collection | This collection is an assemblage of crochet typical of the 1930s and 1940s.

Marjorie Green Collection | This collection contains samples of hand-woven textiles and reference material from the 1950s and 1960s by an accomplished weaver/designer/colorist.

Hickman Collection | This collection includes hand-woven samples with drafts originally prepared by Wallace Hickman during the 1950s and 1960s.

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