Excerpt from A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets It is a pity that when we speak of art, the thought should be of something quite remote from the life of all the people.... The word art ought to carry as common and universal a meaning as the words life and love. J. H. Dillard About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.