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Author : Thomas K. Woodard,Blanche Greenstein
Publisher : Dutton Adult
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Quilts
ISBN : UCSD:31822003507357
Author : Linda Elisabeth LaPinta
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780813198194
Although they are commonplace in American homes, quilts are much more than simple patchwork bed coverings and wall adornments. While many of these beautiful and intricate works of art are rich in history and tradition, others reflect the cutting-edge talent and avant-garde mastery of contemporary quiltmakers. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce is the first comprehensive study to approach quilts as objects of material culture that have adorned homes throughout the history of the commonwealth and the country. Linda Elisabeth LaPinta highlights such topics as quiltmaking in women's history, the influence of early Black quiltmakers, popular Kentucky quilt patterns, types, and colors, and the continuing importance of preserving the commonwealth's quilt history and traditions. The author provides a panoramic view of Kentucky quiltmaking from colonial America through the American Revolution, the Civil War to the 1900s, to the new millennium and the dynamic quilting industry of today. LaPinta reveals Kentucky's pivotal role in shaping significant aspects of American quilt culture—Kentuckians founded the first statewide quilt documentation project, created important exhibits and major quilt organizations, and established the National Quilt Museum. Rounding out this all-encompassing volume is a collection of fascinating and intimate artistic commentaries by notable quiltmakers, as well as discussion of the key players who have conserved, celebrated, and showcased the commonwealth's extraordinary quilt culture.
Author : Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff,Carole Ann King
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781496831439
Winner of the 2022 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association Alabama Quilts: Wilderness through World War II, 1682–1950 is a look at the quilts of the state from before Alabama was part of the Mississippi Territory through the Second World War—a period of 268 years. The quilts are examined for their cultural context—that is, within the community and time in which they were made, the lives of the makers, and the events for which they were made. Starting as far back as 1682, with a fragment that research indicates could possibly be the oldest quilt in America, the volume covers quilting in Alabama up through 1950. There are seven sections in the book to represent each time period of quilting in Alabama, and each section discusses the particular factors that influenced the appearance of the quilts, such as migration and population patterns, socioeconomic conditions, political climate, lifestyle paradigms, and historic events. Interwoven in this narrative are the stories of individuals associated with certain quilts, as recorded on quilt documentation forms. The book also includes over 265 beautiful photographs of the quilts and their intricate details. To make this book possible, authors Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff and Carole Ann King worked with libraries, historic homes, museums, and quilt guilds around the state of Alabama, spending days on formal quilt documentation, while also holding lectures across the state and informal “quilt sharings.” The efforts of the authors involved so many community people—from historians, preservationists, librarians, textile historians, local historians, museum curators, and genealogists to quilt guild members, quilt shop owners, and quilt owners—making Alabama Quilts not only a celebration of the quilting culture within the state but also the many enthusiasts who have played a role in creating and sustaining this important art.
Author : Thos. K. Woodard,Blanche Greenstein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486157917
A wealth of information on pieced and appliqué crib quilts: their history, 156 full-color photos of 19th- and early-20th-century creations, patterns and instructions for 13 charming covers, more.
Author : Barbara Brackman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781571209184
In Clues in the Calico Barbara Brackman unveils a much-needed system for dating America's heirloom quilts. She tells how, by collecting and observing quilts and finally analyzing her computer file on close to 900 date-inscribed specimens, she arrived at the system. And through this telling she also imparts a colorful, stunningly illustrated history of quiltmaking along with a good bit of entertaining social history and the newest findings in textile research.
Author : Gerard C. Wertkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135956158
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 : Ivy Press
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1599670968
Author : Robert Shaw
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 140274773X
This photographed book covers the historical panorama of quiltmaking in the United States, from the quintessential patterns to their cultural significance.--[Book jacket.].
Author : Gwen Marston
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780472068555
The story of the woman who helped create the modern American quilting revival
Author : Mary Elizabeth Johnson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 1578063582
These examples evince both the art and the craft during a golden age of handcrafting, from the early 1800s until 1946, a time before the widespread use of motorized sewing machines, synthetic fabrics, and prefabricated batting."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Beverly Gordon
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1572335424
Explores the way middle-class American women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries added meaning to their lives through their "domestic amusements"--leisure pursuits that took place in and were largely focused on the home. Women elaborated on their everyday tasks and responsibilities with these amusements thus cultivating a heightened, aesthetically charged "saturated" state and created self-contained enchanted worlds.
Author : Lynne Z. Bassett
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1584657456
The definitive treasury of Massachusetts's historic quilts, and a tribute to the creative spirit of their makers
Author : Whitney Otto
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804181228
“Remarkable . . . It is a tribute to an art form that allowed women self-expression even when society did not. Above all, though, it is an affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, and the way they cannot help fitting together.”—The New York Times Book Review An extraordinary and moving novel, How to Make an American Quilt is an exploration of women of yesterday and today, who join together in a uniquely female experience. As they gather year after year, their stories, their wisdom, their lives, form the pattern from which all of us draw warmth and comfort for ourselves. The inspiration for the major motion picture featuring Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, and Maya Angelou Praise for How to Make an American Quilt “Fascinating . . . highly original . . . These are beautiful individual stories, stitched into a profoundly moving whole. . . . A spectrum of women’s experience in the twentieth century.”—Los Angeles Times “Intensely thoughtful . . . In Grasse, a small town outside Bakersfield, the women meet weekly for a quilting circle, piercing together scraps of their husbands’ old workshirts, children’s ragged blankets, and kitchen curtains. . . . Like the richly colored, well-placed shreds that make up the substance of an American quilt, details serve to expand and illuminate these characters. . . . The book spans half a century and addresses not only [these women’s] histories but also their children’s, their lovers’, their country’s, and in the process, their gender’s.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A radiant work of art . . . It is about mothers and daughters; it is about the estrangement and intimacy between generations. . . . A compelling tale.”—The Seattle Times
Author : Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff,Carol Vickers
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1578067456
An unprecedented collection of fifty remarkable quilts from four generations of women artisans
Author : John Forrest,Deborah Blincoe
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780292789180
Traditional quilts serve many purposes over the course of a useful life. Beginning as a beautiful bed covering, a quilt may later function as a ground cover at picnics until years of wear relegate it to someone's ragbag for scrap uses. Observing this life cycle led authors John Forrest and Deborah Blincoe to the idea that quilts, like living things, have a natural history that can be studied scientifically. They explore that natural history through an examination of the taxonomy, morphology, behavior, and ecology of quilts in their native environment—the homes of humans who make, use, keep, and bestow them. The taxonomy proposed by Forrest and Blincoe is rooted in the mechanics of replicating quilts so that it can be used to understand evolutionary and genetic relationships between quilt types. The morphology section anatomizes normal and abnormal physical features of quilts, while the section on conception and birth in the life cycle discusses how the underlying processes of replication intersect with environmental factors to produce tangible objects. This methodology is applicable to many kinds of crafts and will be of wide interest to students of folklore, anthropology, and art history. Case studies of traditional quilts and their makers in the Catskills and Appalachia add a warm, human dimension to the book.
