The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort, 1750-1950The most important, comprehensive, and sumptuously illustrated addition to the literature of quilting since i1Quilts in America. Most of the book's 250 stunning full-color quilts have never before been published. With them as a reference, Kiracofe shows us how to read a vocabulary of fabrics, dyes, patterns, and other clues to put quilts in their social and cultural context. Full-color photographs. |
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... COLOR For the casual observer , a fabric's most intriguing characteristic is gen- erally its color ; for the quilt scholar , it is more exciting to learn how the fabric got to be that color . Hand in hand with the study of color goes ...
... COLOR For the casual observer , a fabric's most intriguing characteristic is gen- erally its color ; for the quilt scholar , it is more exciting to learn how the fabric got to be that color . Hand in hand with the study of color goes ...
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... color produced with aniline was purple , the result of an accident . made in a British chemistry laboratory by one ... color and more yellow as they fade , aniline dyes sometimes went through colors that were completely unrelated to the ...
... color produced with aniline was purple , the result of an accident . made in a British chemistry laboratory by one ... color and more yellow as they fade , aniline dyes sometimes went through colors that were completely unrelated to the ...
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... color in the October 25 , 1910 , issue of Farm and Fireside , and accurately predicted what was to come : THERE is another important difference between the modern quilts and those of a generation ago , and that is in the matter of color ...
... color in the October 25 , 1910 , issue of Farm and Fireside , and accurately predicted what was to come : THERE is another important difference between the modern quilts and those of a generation ago , and that is in the matter of color ...
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19th century America Hurrah American Quilt American Quilt Study Amish Amish quilts antique quilts appliquéd and pieced Art Quilt Avenue Baltimore Album quilts block printing blue border broderie perse calico central medallion chintz City cloth Collection of America colonial color colorfast cottons County Historical crazy quilt Doll Quilt double pinks dress early Elizabeth embroidered embroidery England FIGURE floral flowers Hawaiian Historical Society Ibid inches Indiana indigo John Hewson Kansas Kortwright Ladies Lancaster County Lewisburg LOG CABIN madder magazines Mailing address maker manufacture Mary Mill Valley mordant mother motifs Museum of Art needlework Ohio old quilts Oral Traditions Project P.O. Box palampores PATCH Patchwork Quilt Paul Pilgrim Pennsylvania Photograph courtesy pieced and appliquéd popular produced purple quilt designs quilt patterns Quilt Study Group quilt top quilters quiltmaking roller-printed San Francisco silk South STAR stitches style textile tion Turkey red whole-cloth woman women wool York