"This significant catalog is a highly detailed look at the world's most celebrated collection of red and white quilts. Like the Log Cabin or Baltimore-style, the red and white quilt is a hugely popular genre of quilting. Colorfast Turkey red dye became readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, so red and white quilts became extremely popular, due not only to the newness of the color but also because of the extremely vibrant and punchy contrasting color scheme. Featuring over 650 quilts from the past three centuries, this book is filled with the gorgeous and imaginative designs of feathered stars, diamonds, animals, oak leaves, baskets, lettering, and snowflakes, as well as fascinating examples of careful embroidery and appliqué. With inspiring handiwork, designs, and visual histories, this book exemplifies the sheer magnitude and poetry of red and white quilts and is a staple compendium of this beloved art form." --
Mrs. Wilson provided a picture of her great - uncle , John Frederick Ruffin , fashionably turned out in a single - horse ... The maker , Louise Dickerson Fairchild , visited the Old Capitol Building around 1860 or 1861 and was moved to ...
A collection of 25 improvisational quilts, this compilation from one of the premier colorists in contemporary American art represents work from three distinct series of quilts, all of which are photographed in sensational colors and with ...
The Perfect Patchwork Primer . Baltimore : Penguin Books , 1974 . Gwinner , Schnuppe von . The History of the Patchwork Quilt : Origins , Traditions and Symbols of a Textile Art . West Chester , PA : Schiffer Publishing , Ltd. , 1988 .
The Memory Quilt
Chapters include: An American Tradition; Quilts: America's Folklore; Quilts: The Art of the Amish; Hawaiian Quilts; Quilts - Crazy Memories; Baby, Crib, and Doll Quilts; Quilts at Exhibition; Contemporary Quilts; A Quilt - Collector's ...
Hearty Good Wishes: Coastal Quilts
the 1936 hidden star “ My love affair with quilts started when I was in my thirties , about the time of the American quilt revival . My first remembrance of them was when I went away to college ; my loving grandmother offered me a few ...
Quilters' Travel Companion: West of the Mississippi Edition
This volume brings together the two hundred most important examples from the esteemed collection of the American Folk Art Museum, many of which are shown here for the first time.
... quilt was made in the 1960's at Humboldt , TN by the owner's mother - in - law , Nell Bledsoe . Bledsoe , Anna Garrett ( Duke ) Hatchie Chapter Ancestor : Jonathon Jones , SC # 785238 This " Wheel of Mystery / Winding Ways " quilt was ...