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Quilty as Charged: Undercover in a Material World
ISBN: 9780292705999 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the United States today, there are more than twenty-two million quilters who collectively spend more than one billion dollars on quilting every year. The annual International Quilt Festival attracts more than 50,000 dedicated visitors from around the world. Festival prize money can reach $100,000. Drawn into this material world by a newspaper assignment, Spike Gillespie soon found the personalities who populate serious quiltmaking as compelling as the art itself. Quilty as Charged is not a history or how-to guide; it is a collection of many small stories, including... In the United States today, there are more than twenty-two million quilters who collectively spend more than one billion dollars on quilti... |
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Quilting with Strips and Strings
ISBN: 9780486243573 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quickest, easiest way to turn left-over fabric into handsome quilt. 46 patchwork quilts; 31 full-size templates.
Quickest, easiest way to turn left-over fabric into handsome quilt. 46 patchwork quilts; 31 full-size templates.
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The Quick and Easy Giant Dahlia Quilt: Step-By-Step Instructions and Full-Size Templates for Four Quilt Sizes
ISBN: 9780486245010 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its first known appearance in the 1935 issue of Needlecraft -- The Home Arts Magazine, the Giant Dahlia pattern has been a favorite among quilters. A beautiful patchwork representation of the dahlia flower, this classic quilt was often judged too difficult for anyone but the most experienced quilter. Noted quilting teachers and authors Susan Murwin and Suzzy Payne rediscovered the Giant Dahlia in the late 1970s and determined to make it accessible to quilters of every degree of skill. This book is the culmination of their efforts: they have solved the drafting and sewing...
Since its first known appearance in the 1935 issue of Needlecraft -- The Home Arts Magazine, the Giant Dahlia pattern has been a favorite amon...
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The Complete Book of Seminole Patchwork
ISBN: 9780486276175 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developed by the Mikasuki-speaking Indian women of southern Florida around the end of the 1800s, Seminole patchwork has become a highly visible art form and genuine symbol of Seminole culture. Developed by the Mikasuki-speaking Indian women of southern Florida around the end of the 1800s, Seminole patchwork has become a highly visible art... |
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Tessellation Quilts
ISBN: 9780715319413 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Turns an interesting mathematical phenomenon into a beautiful quilt design -Presents a challenging technique to help experienced quilters improve skills -Christine Porter's previous book Quilt Designs From Decorative Floor Tiles has sold more than 10,000 copies Readers will discover the rewards of learning to translate an ancient pattern into beautiful pieced patchwork designs in this exciting new book from Christine Porter. This trendy new reference: -Explores 11 tessellating block designs in exquisite detail -Features more than 40 quilts illustrating how blocks can be used to create...
Turns an interesting mathematical phenomenon into a beautiful quilt design -Presents a challenging technique to help experienced quilters improve skil...
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Quilts Are Forever: A Patchwork Collection of Inspiration Stories
ISBN: 9780743210867 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. QUILTS -- PIECES OF FABRIC SEWN TOGETHER LIKE MOMENTS IN TIME, AS HANDMADE AS LIFE ITSELF
Every quilt has a story to tell, an endearing story that lasts forever. Whether it is a craft-fair find, a generations-old family heirloom, or an art collector's most prized piece, quilts warm our bodies and our hearts. Ever since pioneer women organized sewing circles to combat the harshness and isolation of the American West, women have turned to quilting to celebrate, share, and heal. In this heartwarming collection of inspirational stories, we see the celebrations, joys, and heartaches... QUILTS -- PIECES OF FABRIC SEWN TOGETHER LIKE MOMENTS IN TIME, AS HANDMADE AS LIFE ITSELF
Every quilt has a story to tell, an endearing story tha... |
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North Carolina Quilts
ISBN: 9780807842348 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This magnificent volume features color photographs of more than 100 quilts crafted in North Carolina between the early nineteenth century and 1976. Included are chintz applique quilts, intricately pieced and appliqued quilts, crazy quilts, and examples of ingenious thrift in quilting with found and salvaged materials.
The quilts were chosen from more than 10,000 that owners brought to be recorded by the North Carolina Quilt Project during a series of statewide Quilt Documentation Days in 1985-86. Because the quilts are privately owned, many have never been seen publicly. The text... This magnificent volume features color photographs of more than 100 quilts crafted in North Carolina between the early nineteenth century and 1976. In...
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Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South
ISBN: 9780807849958 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally published in 1989, Stitched from the Soul was the first book to examine the history of quilting in the enslaved community and to place slave-made quilts into historical and cultural context. It remains a beautiful and moving tribute to an African American tradition.
Undertaking a national search to locate slave-crafted textiles, Gladys-Marie Fry uncovered a treasure trove of pieces. The 123 color and black and white photographs... This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally publish...
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Kentucky Quilts and Their Makers
ISBN: 9780813100968 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kentucky's contribution to the perennially popular American craft of quiltmaking is a rich and varied one. Mary Clarke examines here the state of the craft in Kentucky and finds it as lively today as it was 150 years ago. Like a fingerprint, every Kentucky quilt differs from all others in some respects, whether it is an original creation or a variation of one of the traditional patterns long popular in the United States. And many Kentucky quilts reveal much about the individual maker -- her disposition, taste, and lifestyle, the familiar objects that bring joy to her daily life, and... Kentucky's contribution to the perennially popular American craft of quiltmaking is a rich and varied one. Mary Clarke examines here the state of t... |
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109,66 |
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The Adirondack Park: A Wildlands Quilt
ISBN: 9780815605676 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. McMartin focuses on the uniqueness of the forty-four individual tracts that make up the two and a half million acre Forest Preserve within the Adirondack Park, chronicling the preserve's unusual origins, people, politics and economics that created what is now one of the most important wilderness areas in the eastern United States.
McMartin focuses on the uniqueness of the forty-four individual tracts that make up the two and a half million acre Forest Preserve within the Adirond...
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The Freedom Quilting Bee: Folk Art and the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780817352479 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend. In December of 1965, the year of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, a white Episcopal priest driving through a desperately poor, primarily black section of Wilcox County found himself at a great bend of the Alabama River. He noticed a cabin clothesline from which were hanging three magnificent quilts unlike any he had ever seen. They were of strong, bold colors in original, op-art patterns--the same art style then fashionable in New York City and other cultural centers. An idea was born and within weeks took on... The original book on the renowned Freedom quilters of Gee's Bend. In December of 1965, the year of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, ... |
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American Coverlets and Their Weavers: Coverlets from the Collection of Foster and Muriel McCarl
ISBN: 9780821414446 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Coverlets woven in vibrant colors of red, blue, white, and green are as popular today as they were in the nineteenth century.
"American Coverlets and Their Weavers" is a lavishly illustrated guide to one of the premier collections of coverlets in the nation. As such, it is also an essential reference for collectors, historians, specialists in material culture, and others who are interested in American textiles. Published in association with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, "American Coverlets and Their Weavers" is a work of impressive scholarship. Clarita S. Anderson has drawn... Coverlets woven in vibrant colors of red, blue, white, and green are as popular today as they were in the nineteenth century.
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Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve
ISBN: 9780821416594 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Quilts of Ohio's Western Reserve includes early quilts brought from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and contemporary quilts, including one by an Old Order Amish woman and a quilt inspired by Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Quilt makers in Oberlin, including fifth-generation descendants of abolitionists and slaves, produced the Underground Railroad Quilt in 1987.
Ricky Clark, one of Ohio's foremost quilt historians, has assembled exquisite examples of calamanco, T quilts, and borderless pieced quilts to show the history of Connecticut aesthetics and history... Quilts of Ohio's Western Reserve includes early quilts brought from Connecticut to the Western Reserve in northeastern Ohio and contemporary quilts, i...
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Uncommon Threads: Ohio's Art Quilt Revolution
ISBN: 9780821417065 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ohio s long quiltmaking heritage prepared the wayfor the contemporary pioneer artists of the 1970s and 1980s, who, through individual vision and dedication, have created a new art form and added a new chapter to quilt history. Uncommon Threads: Ohio s Art Quilt Revolution reveals for the first time the remarkable role Ohio artists, curators, institutions, and organizations have played in the evolution of today s internationalart quilt movement.
Against the backdrop of America s counterculture and civil rights movements, author Gayle A. Pritchard s compelling narrative threads its way... Ohio s long quiltmaking heritage prepared the wayfor the contemporary pioneer artists of the 1970s and 1980s, who, through individual vision and dedic...
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The History of the Patchwork Quilt
ISBN: 9780887401367 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The origins, traditions and symbolism of patchwork in clothing and quilts are explored from multi-national examples over the past 500 years. This classic book now in its first English edition traces quilts across Europe and Asia and through the growing textile industry of North America. Color and black-and-white photographs show beautiful applique and Amish quilts as well as crazy-quilts, bridal and friendship quilts and more. Examples represent historical and contemporary prize-winning designs. The author provides an extensive bibliography in hopes that it will foster more extensive research...
The origins, traditions and symbolism of patchwork in clothing and quilts are explored from multi-national examples over the past 500 years. This clas...
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The Quilters : Women and Domestic Art - An Oral History
ISBN: 9780896724105 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The quilts are beautiful, the faces worn but kind . . . the insights affecting. New York Times Book Review The women who speak through the book shared a vision, a strength, and a spirit that few of us will ever know or understand. Christian Science Monitor You can t always change things. Sometimes you don t have no control over the way things go. Hail ruins the crops, or fire burns you out. And then you re just given so much to work with in a life and you have to do the best you can with what you ve got. That s what piecing is. The materials is passed on to you or is all you can afford to buy...
The quilts are beautiful, the faces worn but kind . . . the insights affecting. New York Times Book Review The women who speak through the book shared...
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The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book
ISBN: 9780929950051 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: This title will be printed after purchase and will arrive separately from any in-stock items. Please allow approximately 2 weeks for USA delivery, with an additional 2 weeks for international shipments. Expedited shipping is not available on POD Editions. The printing quality in this copy will vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated due to printing on demand by a high-quality printer on uncoated (non-glossy) paper. The information presented in this version is the same as the most recent printed edition. Any...
*Important Note about PRINT ON DEMAND Editions: This title will be printed after purchase and will arrive separately from any in-stock items. Please a...
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125,13 |
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Zen and Now of Quilting Art
ISBN: 9781420876031 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zen and Now of Quilting Art is a fascinating adventure that takes the reader into the past of fiber art and its exciting history. From Ancient Egypt through the Victorian era and beyond the use of textiles is explored in the pages of this colorful and informative book. The technique of hand quilting as therapy is demonstrated in a unique manner that is interesting and enlightening. The Enhancement Method of hand quilting is demonstrated in easy to follow photographs and directions. Pattern for the Egyptian Medallion Quilt on the cover is included along with complete instructions for assembly....
Zen and Now of Quilting Art is a fascinating adventure that takes the reader into the past of fiber art and its exciting history. From Ancient Egypt t...
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A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans
ISBN: 9781557286208 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arkansas is well known for its rich tradition of upland folk arts. Little, however, has been reported from the lowland areas, particularly on African American contributions to the state's cultural heritage. A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansas seeks to rectify that oversight by drawing attention to the extensive, important collection of African American quilts in the Old State House Museum in Little Rock. Over seventy-five individual pieces of patchwork art are presented in this publication in full-color plates, each with a commentary by the exhibit's guest curator, Cuesta Benberry....
Arkansas is well known for its rich tradition of upland folk arts. Little, however, has been reported from the lowland areas, particularly on African ...
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Mark Black's Family Quilts: Memory and Meaning in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9781570036101 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mary Black's Family Quilts utilizes a remarkable collection of sixteen quilts to tell the story of a family through six generations and access the material behavior associated with quiltmaking traditions. The daughter of a prominent farmer, Mary Louisa Snoddy Black (1860-1927) is remembered in the Spartanburg, South Carolina, region for the hospital named in her honor and for the philanthropic foundation that continues to support community health and wellness. Laurel Horton explores the even more tangible legacy Black left to her descendants--trunks full of quilts made by women of the family,...
Mary Black's Family Quilts utilizes a remarkable collection of sixteen quilts to tell the story of a family through six generations and access the mat...
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