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Quilting News of Yesteryear: 1,000 Pieces and Counting
Sue Reich
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Description for Quilting News of Yesteryear: 1,000 Pieces and Counting
Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages, 206 color photos. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JH; DNJ; HBT; WFBQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 648.
Since the early nineteenth century women have been using their fabric collections to make quilts, often using thousands of pieces in a single quilt. These feats of perseverance and art were newsworth and in towns across the United States they caught the attention of the local press, which recognized the women and their work. This book gathers these newspaper accounts of industrious needlework into a chronicle of the work. Arranged chronologically, the reports are accompanied by detailed photographs of quilts made during the same time period. This visual record of the antique quilts make it clear how painstaking and beautiful ... Read more
Since the early nineteenth century women have been using their fabric collections to make quilts, often using thousands of pieces in a single quilt. These feats of perseverance and art were newsworth and in towns across the United States they caught the attention of the local press, which recognized the women and their work. This book gathers these newspaper accounts of industrious needlework into a chronicle of the work. Arranged chronologically, the reports are accompanied by detailed photographs of quilts made during the same time period. This visual record of the antique quilts make it clear how painstaking and beautiful ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764325953
SKU
V9780764325953
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Sue Reich
Sue Reich began her interest in the study of quilt history with the Connecticut quilt documentation project in 1991. A quiltmaker since childhood, she lectures widely on many aspects of quilt history, co-authored "Quilts and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut," and is a certified AQS quilt appraiser.
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