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Author
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Want to make your quilting easier to carry with you? Try the quilt-as-you-go methods that women of the 1800s invented so they could work on small blocks in stolen snatches of time. This quilting approach has many other benefits: It allows shorter sessions for tasks that some find tedious - no more weeklong cutting or piecing marathons. It makes sewing-machine work less cumbersome, makes use of small batting scraps, and doesn't require a frame. Based...
Author
Publisher
Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Presents 150 quilts from the author's collection which were made during the second half of the twentieth century by anonymous quilters in the United States, along with a series of essays on quilt making as an art form.
Author
Publisher
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers...
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