Pulitzer Prize winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than pens. This book, part of the multivolume series of the International Quilt Study Center collections, recovers a swath of that lost history and shows us some of America s treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870 1940 examines the period s quilts from both an artistic and a historical perspective. From pieced block to Crazy...
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely becaus...
Patricia Cox Crews Carolyn Ducey International Quilt Study Center & Museu
Part of a comprehensive catalog of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum collection, American Quilts in the Industrial Age, 1760-1870 highlights the dazzling designs and intricate needlework of America's treasured material culture. From whole cloth to pieced quilts to elaborate applique examples, all reflecting various design movements such as Neoclassicism and Eastern exoticism, the contributing authors address the development of quilt making in America from its inception in the 1700s to the period of the U.S. Civil War.
Covering more than one hundred years of...
Part of a comprehensive catalog of the International Quilt Study Center and Museum collection, American Quilts in the Industrial Age, 1760-1870<...
