Janet Rae’s professional background includes newspaper journalism on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as book and corporate publishing in Edinburgh. She has written extensively about textiles and Scottish crafts and for eight years operated a small arts and crafts gallery in the Scottish Borders. As Heritage Officer for The Quilters’ Guild of the British Isles, she had responsibility for its three-year quilt documentation project which recorded over 4,000 quilts in private ownership. She acted as editor and contributor to the resulting book, Quilt Treasures: the British Quilt Heritage Project (Deirdre McDonald Books, London) 1995. Janet is also a former trustee of The Quilters’ Guild and a member of The British Quilt Study Group and has published two papers in Quilt Studies, the group’s journal:‘The Wemyss School of Needlework and the Business of Quilting, 1928 – 1940 (2011) and ‘The Comfy: A Social History of the British Quilting Company’ (2012).