American Quilt: Cloth and Comfort, 1750-1950

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The 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.

Enables readers to see in patchwork quilts the history of our ...

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The 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.

Enables readers to see in patchwork quilts the history of our nation--and reflections of the women whose lives have too often remained in history's shadow. Most of the book's 250 stunning, full-color quilts have never before been published. Kiracofe can be seen on PBS's The Great American Quilt.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
This is something that an overcrowded market actually needs: not just another do-it-yourselfer's patchwork quilt guide, Kiracofe's ( Homage to Amanda: 200 Years of American Quilts ) ambitious survey takes stock of American quilting's causes and effects. And, naturally, he recognizes the story of quilt lineage as social, involving members of families or communities in work that was practical, durable, and aesthetically satisfying. Kiracofe goes into detail, addressing what fabrics and dyes, as well as patterns, were used at different points in American history; the role of slaves in Southern quilting, and African American quiltmaking styles; the effect of westward expansion on quilt supply and demand; and the craze for the ``Oscar'' quilt (featuring a sunflower motif) following a much-publicized visit to the U.S. in 1882 by Oscar Wilde. Of course, that's not all: there are also the quilts themselves, on view here in startling illustrated abundance--from an Islamic-seeming ``sunburst'' specimen, made in Pennsylvania, circa 1901, to an azure-blue and canary-yellow Hawaiian applique variety from 1946. Serious collectors and quilters will need this book; many others will want it. (Nov.)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780517575352
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 9/28/2004
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 9.10 (w) x 11.20 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

RODERICK KIRACOFE was cofounder of The Quilt Digest, produced Homage to Amanda: 200 Years of American Quilts, and authored Cloth & Comfort. He has assembled corporate and private quilt collections across the country and curated quilt exhibits here and abroad. He lives in San Francisco.

MARY ELIZABETH JOHNSON wrote her first quilt book in 1976 and has since authored a dozen more craft and home decorating titles. Her latest and final book on the subject will be a history of the quilting in her home state of Alabama. She lives in Montgomery.

For more information, visit www.theamericanquilt.com.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 8, 2000

    My Christmas Wish is Complete!

    On my husband's days off, we like to go to Barnes & Nobles and get us a Frappicino and then browse the aisles looking for our favorite books. I am a Quilter, so naturally I gravitate to the Quilting section. For the past year, I have been looking and dreaming about buying this particular book. I always hint around for my husband to buy me the book for my birthday or Christmas or Mother's Day....but I always end up with something else. Well, this week, we went again and he said, Get the Book !!!! I am in Heaven! It has so much history and pictures and pictures of Beautiful Quilts! A must have for every Quilter who is interested in the history of Quilting. My Christmas Wish List in now complete, now I only have to wait until Christmas morning, when I finally get to open it! LOL

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