Whitework: Women Stitching Identity - Paperbackby Laurel Horton (Author), Margaret Ordoez (Consultant), Kate Brown (Consultant) Whitework: Women Stitching Identity provides the first in depth exploration of American produced whitework textiles. Made during a time when women had no public voice, white quilts and counterpanes called "whitework" survive as material records of both personal identity and collective political expression. American women who made whitework between 1790 and 1830 were