American
Folk Art Quilts
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 The
American Quilt : A History of Cloth and Comfort 1750-1950
This re-issued and updated book is a celebration of the quilt which
features more than 250 full-color photographs and a text that shows
readers how to examine fabrics, dyes, patterns, and other clues in
order to place quilts in their social and cultural context.
Click on the title to pre-order for $18.15, a 32% savings. |
 Bonnet
Girls: Patterns of the Past
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 Carrie Hall Blocks:
Over 800 Historical Patterns from the College of the Spencer Museum of Art, University of
Kansas. Carrie Hall, an early 20th-century Kansas quiltmaker, set out to preserve
America's quiltmaking heritage by collecting every known patchwork pattern and piecing one
cloth block for every pattern. Made between 1900 and 1935 and now housed in the
Spencer Museum at the University of Kansas, these blocks are a rich source of information
for quilters, quilt historians, and quilt collectors. In compiling Carrie Hall's Blocks,
Havig has made Hall's collection accessible to the modern quilter.Price: $24.46, (30%
discount) |
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Chintz: Indian Textiles for the West
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 Clues
in the Calico
The bible of quilt dating. Click on the title to order. |
 Dating Fabrics : A
Color Guide 1800-1960 Improved before it was even released, this book
now has 205 pages showing over 1,000 color swatches to help you recognize, identify and
date vintage American fabrics as used in quilts and clothing. This pocket size book
(5 1/2" X 8 1/2) book is priced at $17.47 (30% off ) Click on
the title to order. |
 Facts
and Fabrications; Unraveling the History of Quilts & Slavery by Barbara
Brackman
9 Projects, 20 Blocks, First Person Accounts. Available December
2006. Retail $27.95. Click on the title to preorder for $17.61, a
36% discount
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Going West: Quilts
in CommunityClick on the title for more
information |
The Quilt: A
History and Celebration of an American Art Form.
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 Quilts of
the Oregon Trailclick on the title for more
information |
 The Quilt
that Walked to Goldenclick on the title for
more information |
"Quilting News of Yesteryear: A Thousand Pieces and Counting"
is a hard cover book featuring over three hundred newspaper articles about
quilts dating from 1834 to 1934. The subject is quilts made with thousands
of pieces. The news articles are complimented with quilts from the same
time periods. Nearly each page shows close-ups of quilts. This first book
in the series of quilting news of yesteryear, provides for primary and
secondary sources for quiltmaking spanning one hundred years. It will be a
valuable reference for all of us studying quilt history, women's history
and textile history. Click on the title to order for $25.95
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 Quilting
News of Yesteryear: Crazy as a Bed Bug
From the early 1880s through the second quarter of the twentieth century,
American women made crazy quilts in colossal numbers. The velvets, satins,
silks, wools and cottons of the crazy quilt era reflect abundance in the
economy of the society-at-large. Just as they filled their scrapbook
albums with trade cards, calling cards, photos and memorabilia, crazy
quilt makers embellished their quilts with their most favorite things.
The result was newsworthy...literally. Newspapers
picked up on the accomplishments of these talented women and shared them
with their communities. This new book contains over 200 newspaper articles
dating from 1880 to 1945, that trace crazy quilt patterns and articles in
women’s magazines and pamphlets.
The fascinating text is illustrated with quilts that are contemporary to
the source articles. All of the pictures are close-ups, showing intricate
piecing and extensive embellishment.
This unusual book enriches the history and appreciation of the quilt as
art. Click on the title to order. |
 Quilts
in a Material World: from the Winterthur
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 The
Salt Lake City 14Th Ward Album Quilt, 1857
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Texas Quilts and Quilters: a Lone Star Legacy. Click on the
title for more information.
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Textiles in America. The book offers an overview of
textiles in America, based on years of research, that is unmatched in
scope. Imported textiles played a central role in the lives of American
colonists. The most-imported commodity, and a highly valued one, textiles
were used for bedding, bed curtains, clothing, household linens, window
curtains, upholstery, and floor covering. This book illustrates samples
from collections around the world, as well as drawings and engravings of
the time. Its dictionary-style entries depict the myriad household uses
for textiles in the period. Drawing on original documents, prints,
paintings, commercial records, merchant papers, advertisements, and
pattern books, Textiles in America 1650-1870 is a comprehensive resource
and a treasure trove of scholarship. 117 color, 225 black-and-white
illustrations. Click n the title to order.
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 Toiles
for all Seasons
This book focuses specifically on the early scenic, copperplate
and engraved roller printed furnishing fabrics, the rich complexity of
their designs, and some of the fascinating stories their pictures
reveal. Click on the title to order. |
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