Traditional American Quilts
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Author | : Museum of American Folk Art |
Publisher | : Penguin Putnam |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Quilting |
ISBN | : |
"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
Author | : Roderick Kiracofe |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-09 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9781617691232 |
Presents 150 quilts from the author's collection which were made during the second half of the twentieth century by anonymous quilters in the United States, along with a series of essays on quilt making as an art form.
Author | : Amelia Peck |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0870995928 |
Catalogs the Museum's quilt and coverlet collection and discusses the history of the quiltmaker's art
Author | : Robert Shaw |
Publisher | : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781402747731 |
This photographed book covers the historical panorama of quiltmaking in the United States, from the quintessential patterns to their cultural significance.--[Book jacket.].
Author | : Sandra L. O'Brien |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Quilting |
ISBN | : 9780848710651 |
Author | : Rachel May |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 168177478X |
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.
Author | : Carolyn Mazloomi |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.
Author | : Leisure Arts |
Publisher | : Leisure Arts |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780848715267 |
his collection of 24 quilts features magnificent creations from quilters across the country. From "sea and sky" themes to autumn colors, Christmas patterns, and traditional designs, all come with complete color charts, patterns, and portraits of the desi
Author | : Robert Shaw |
Publisher | : Hugh Lauter Levin Assc |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780883633953 |
Examines how quilts and quilting have evolved from the eighteenth century to the present, and displays photographs of traditional and contemporary quilts, as well as those from the Amish, African American, Hawaiian, and Native American traditions
Author | : Suzi Parron |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2012-01-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0804040494 |
The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron takes us to twenty-five states as well as Canada to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America’s tourist and folk art map. Through dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails. With more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents here a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.