Author: Robert Charles BishopPublisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
New Discoveries in American Quilts
Author: Robert Charles BishopPublisher: Plume Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
An American Quilt
Author: Rachel MayPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 168177478X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era—all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure-trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830sera fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words “shuger,” “rum,” “casks,” and “West Indies,” repeated over and over, along with “friendship,” “kindness,” “government,” and “incident.” The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba—the enslaved women behind the quilt—and their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.
American Quilts
Author: Robert ShawPublisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402747731
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This photographed book covers the historical panorama of quiltmaking in the United States, from the quintessential patterns to their cultural significance.--[Book jacket.].
American Quilts & Coverlets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Amelia PeckPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870995928
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art
Mary Schafer, American Quilt Maker
Author: Gwen MarstonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472068555
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The story of the woman who helped create the modern American quilting revival
Crazy Quilts
Author: Cindy BrickPublisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1610600053
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Here's your chance to get up close and personal with an amazing collections of crazies!" - Quilter's Newsletter Magazine. Made from the finest silks, satins, and velvets and stitched together with elaborate embroidery, the crazy quilt is a testament to quilters’ rich imagination and artistry. This beautiful book traces the bewitching history of “Crazies” from their earliest origins to the present day. Distinguished quilting teacher and appraiser Cindy Brick follows the crazy quilt from colonial times, the Civil War, the Victorian era, and through today, decoding the mystery and meaning of these curious quilts. Also included is a detailed how-to section on constructing crazy quilts. Brick offers methods for planning, piecing, and embroidering or embellishing your quilt, and gives numerous helpful tips that only an expert could provide.
Denyse Schmidt: Modern Quilts, Traditional Inspiration
Author: Denyse SchmidtPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9781584799009
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Includes a sheet of patterns intended to be cut apart for use in constructing quilts.
Glorious American Quilts
Author: Museum of American Folk ArtPublisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"One of America's largest collections of quilts - containing almost 400 examples at the time of this publication and steadily growing - belongs to the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City. As it is a national, not a regional institution, the Museum does not restrict its collection by location, nor is it restricted by time period: The quilts have been made all over the country and range in date from the late-eighteenth to the late-twentieth century." "Until this publication, however, there has been no comprehensive guide to the Museum's quilts, almost all of which have been donated by collectors in the field. Highlights from the collection have been published and exhibited many times, but the purpose of this book is to provide an opportunity for quiltmakers, collectors, scholars, and others to explore the collection in depth. The comprehensive discussion of the quilts has been divided into eleven chapters that are illustrated with 141 color plates. This text is then followed by a catalog of the entire collection, which in turn contains forty-four black-and-white illustrations. Here, then, is a richly handsome and informative volume that will prove to be essential for all those fascinated by this category of American folk art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940
Author: Marin F. HansonPublisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, “Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than pens.” This book, part of the multivolume series of the International Quilt Study Center collections, recovers a swath of that lost history and shows us some of America’s treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870–1940 examines the period’s quilts from both an artistic and a historical perspective. From pieced block to Crazy style to Colonial Revival examples, as well as one-of-a-kind creations, the full array of style and design appears in this book covering seven decades of quiltmaking. The contributing authors provide critical information regarding the modern and anti-modern tensions that persisted throughout this era of America’s coming of age, from the Civil War to World War II. They also address the textile technology and cultural context of the times in which the quilts were created, with an eye to the role that industrialization and modernization played in the evolution of techniques, materials, and designs. With full-color photographs of over 587 quilts, American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940 offers a new visual and tactile understanding of American culture and society, bridging the transition from traditional folk culture to the age of mass production and consumption.
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