Glorious American Quilts

Author : Museum of American Folk Art,Elizabeth V. Warren,Sharon L. Eisenstat
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Quilting
ISBN : UCSD:31822021297122

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Glorious American Quilts by Museum of American Folk Art,Elizabeth V. Warren,Sharon L. Eisenstat Pdf

"One of America's largest collections of quilts - containing almost 400 examples at the time of this publication and steadily growing - belongs to the Museum of American Folk Art in New York City. As it is a national, not a regional institution, the Museum does not restrict its collection by location, nor is it restricted by time period: The quilts have been made all over the country and range in date from the late-eighteenth to the late-twentieth century." "Until this publication, however, there has been no comprehensive guide to the Museum's quilts, almost all of which have been donated by collectors in the field. Highlights from the collection have been published and exhibited many times, but the purpose of this book is to provide an opportunity for quiltmakers, collectors, scholars, and others to explore the collection in depth. The comprehensive discussion of the quilts has been divided into eleven chapters that are illustrated with 141 color plates. This text is then followed by a catalog of the entire collection, which in turn contains forty-four black-and-white illustrations. Here, then, is a richly handsome and informative volume that will prove to be essential for all those fascinated by this category of American folk art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Dennis Duke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Quilts
ISBN : 0517646048

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America's Glorious Quilts by Dennis Duke Pdf

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 Primer; and Living with Quilts.

Author : Katherine Jean Adams
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477309193

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Comfort and Glory by Katherine Jean Adams Pdf

Quilts bear witness to the American experience. With a history that spans the early republic to the present day, this form of textile art can illuminate many areas of American life, such as immigration and settlement, the development of our nation’s textile industry, and the growth of mass media and marketing. In short, each quilt tells a story that is integral to America’s history. Comfort and Glory introduces an outstanding collection of American quilts and quilt history documentation, the Winedale Quilt Collection at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. This volume showcases 115 quilts—nearly one-quarter of the Winedale Collection—through stunning color photographs (including details) and essays about each quilt’s history and construction. The selections span more than two hundred years of American quiltmaking and represent a broad range of traditional styles and functions. Utility quilts, some worn or faded, join show quilts, needlework masterpieces, and “best” quilts saved for special occasions. Texas quilts, including those made in or brought to Texas during the nineteenth century, constitute a significant number of the selections. Color photographs of related documents and material culture objects from the Briscoe Center’s collections—quilting templates, a painted bride’s box, sheet music, a homespun dress, a brass sewing bird, and political ephemera, among them—enrich the stories of many of the quilts.

Author : Dennis Duke,Deborah Harding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Quilts
ISBN : 0883633086

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America's Glorious Quilts by Dennis Duke,Deborah Harding Pdf

Author : Pat Kirkham
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300093315

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Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000 by Pat Kirkham Pdf

A celebration of the many contributions of women designers to 20th-century American culture. Encompassing work in fields ranging from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, it features the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups, including both famous designers (Ray Eames, Florence Knoll and Donna Karan) and their less well-known sisters.

Author : Gerard C. Wertkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135956158

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Encyclopedia of American Folk Art by Gerard C. Wertkin Pdf

For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of American Folk Art web site. This is the first comprehensive, scholarly study of a most fascinating aspect of American history and culture. Generously illustrated with both black and white and full-color photos, this A-Z encyclopedia covers every aspect of American folk art, encompassing not only painting, but also sculpture, basketry, ceramics, quilts, furniture, toys, beadwork, and more, including both famous and lesser-known genres. Containing more than 600 articles, this unique reference considers individual artists, schools, artistic, ethnic, and religious traditions, and heroes who have inspired folk art. An incomparable resource for general readers, students, and specialists, it will become essential for anyone researching American art, culture, and social history.

Author : Maggi McCormick Gordon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-19
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781510756694

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American Folk Art Quilts by Maggi McCormick Gordon Pdf

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Beautiful Quilts! Beautiful antique quilts and a workbook of patterns come together in this lavish photography book for quilters. The more than 30 featured quilts from the Wisconsin State Historical Society collection are displayed in period rooms at Old World Wisconsin, the Society's outdoor museum of German and Scandinavian farmhouses. Patterns and block layouts are provided for replicating each of the original quilts, and after seeing each of them in a true historical context, home sewers will be inspired to create their own versions.

Author : Robert Shaw
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 140274773X

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American Quilts by Robert Shaw Pdf

This photographed book covers the historical panorama of quiltmaking in the United States, from the quintessential patterns to their cultural significance.--[Book jacket.].

Author : Spike Gillespie
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-21
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781610600910

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Quilts Around the World by Spike Gillespie Pdf

This essential book for all quilters and quilt collectors tells the fascinating story of quilting around the world, illuminated by the international quilt community’s top experts and more than 300 glorious color photographs. Covering Japan, China, Korea, and India; England, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands; Australia, Africa, Central America, North America, and beyond, Quilts Around the World explores both the diversity and common threads of quilting. Discover Aboriginal patchwork from Australia, intricate Rallis from the Middle East, Amish and Hawaiian quilts from the United States, Sashiko quilts from Japan, vivid Molas from Central America, and art quilts from every corner of the globe. Also included are twenty patchwork and applique patterns to use in your own quilt projects, inspired by designs from the world’s most striking quilts.

Author : Deanne Eisenman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781617453724

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Blooming Patchwork by Deanne Eisenman Pdf

Deanne Eisenman is on a mission to educate, alleviate and celebrate. Educate quilters on a brief history of appliqué; alleviate anxiety regarding the ‘A’ word; and celebrate the joy of making patchwork bloom. Inspired by antique quilts, Deanne brings the history of appliqué to life using her signature style of combining appliqué on a pieced background. Her delightful designs are easy to accomplish by following her detailed and illustrated step-by-step instructions and handy tips. From table runners and toppers to lap size and full size quilts, these nine projects prove that patchwork and appliqué not only go together, but enrich each other. So dig into your stash and get ready to bring your patchwork into full bloom.

Author : Swannee Bennett,William B. Worthen
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781682261316

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Arkansas Made, Volume 1 by Swannee Bennett,William B. Worthen Pdf

Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.

Author : Aimee E. Newell
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821444757

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A Stitch in Time by Aimee E. Newell Pdf

Drawing from 167 examples of decorative needlework—primarily samplers and quilts from 114 collections across the United States—made by individual women aged forty years and over between 1820 and 1860, this exquisitely illustrated book explores how women experienced social and cultural change in antebellum America. The book is filled with individual examples, stories, and over eighty fine color photographs that illuminate the role that samplers and needlework played in the culture of the time. For example, in October 1852, Amy Fiske (1785–1859) of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, stitched a sampler. But she was not a schoolgirl making a sampler to learn her letters. Instead, as she explained, “The above is what I have taken from my sampler that I wrought when I was nine years old. It was w[rough]t on fine cloth [and] it tattered to pieces. My age at this time is 66 years.” Situated at the intersection of women’s history, material culture study, and the history of aging, this book brings together objects, diaries, letters, portraits, and prescriptive literature to consider how middle-class American women experienced the aging process. Chapters explore the physical and mental effects of “old age” on antebellum women and their needlework, technological developments related to needlework during the antebellum period and the tensions that arose from the increased mechanization of textile production, and how gift needlework functioned among friends and family members. Far from being solely decorative ornaments or functional household textiles, these samplers and quilts served their own ends. They offered aging women a means of coping, of sharing and of expressing themselves. These “threads of time” provide a valuable and revealing source for the lives of mature antebellum women. Publication of this book was made possible in part through generous funding from the Coby Foundation, Ltd and from the Quilters Guild of Dallas, Helena Hibbs Endowment Fund.

Author : Carol Crown,Cheryl Rivers,Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469607993

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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Carol Crown,Cheryl Rivers,Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

Folk art is one of the American South's most significant areas of creative achievement, and this comprehensive yet accessible reference details that achievement from the sixteenth century through the present. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture explores the many forms of aesthetic expression that have characterized southern folk art, including the work of self-taught artists, as well as the South's complex relationship to national patterns of folk art collecting. Fifty-two thematic essays examine subjects ranging from colonial portraiture, Moravian material culture, and southern folk pottery to the South's rich quilt-making traditions, memory painting, and African American vernacular art, and 211 topical essays include profiles of major folk and self-taught artists in the region.

Author : Peter Eisenstadt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 1960 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 081560808X

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The Encyclopedia of New York State by Peter Eisenstadt Pdf

The Encyclopedia of New York State is one of the most complete works on the Empire State to be published in a half-century. In nearly 2,000 pages and 4,000 signed entries, this single volume captures the impressive complexity of New York State as a historic crossroads of people and ideas, as a cradle of abolitionism and feminism, and as an apex of modern urban, suburban, and rural life. The Encyclopedia is packed with fascinating details from fields ranging from sociology and geography to history. Did you know that Manhattan's Lower East Side was once the most populated neighborhood in the world, but Hamilton County in the Adirondacks is the least densely populated county east of the Mississippi; New York is the only state to border both the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean; the Erie Canal opened New York City to rich farmland upstate . . . and to the west. Entries by experts chronicle New York's varied areas, politics, and persuasions with a cornucopia of subjects from environmentalism to higher education to railroads, weaving the state's diverse regions and peoples into one idea of New York State. Lavishly illustrated with 500 photographs and figures, 120 maps, and 140 tables, the Encyclopedia is key to understanding the state's past, present, and future. It is a crucial reference for students, teachers, historians, and business people, for New Yorkers of all persuasions, and for anyone interested in finding out more about New York State.

Author : Gerald W. R. Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195313918

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art by Gerald W. R. Ward Pdf

"The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques deals with all aspects of materials, techniques, conservation, and restoration in both traditional and nontraditional media, including ceramics, sculpture, metalwork, painting, works on paper, textiles, video, digital art, and more. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in The Dictionary of Art and adding new entries, this work is a comprehensive reference resource for artists, art dealers, collectors, curators, conservators, students, researchers, and scholars." "Similar in design to The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts, this one-volume reference work contains articles of various lengths in alphabetical order. The shorter, more factual articles are combined with larger, multi-section articles tracing the development of materials and techniques in various geographical locations. The Encyclopedia provides unparalleled scope and depth, and it offers fully updated articles and bibliography as well as over 150 illustrations and color plates." "The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques offers scholarly information on materials and techniques in art for anyone who studies, creates, collects, or deals in works of art. The entries are written to be accessible to a wide range of readers, and the work is designed as a reliable and convenient resource covering this essential area in the visual arts."