Vintage Quilts: Identifying, Collecting, Dating, Preserving & Valuing

Vintage Quilts: Identifying, Collecting, Dating, Preserving & Valuing
ISBN-10
1574322850
ISBN-13
9781574322859
Category
Quilts
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
American Quilter's Society
Authors
Bobbie Aug, Sharon Newman, Gerald E. Roy

Description

This book idenitfies hundreds of quilt patterns and gives the rationale for the appraisal of each style, pattern, and era of the 650 quilts shown. Closeups of patterns and vintage fabric swatches of American quilts from the 1800s to the 1950s. 8.5 x 11. 224 pages.

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