This illustrated handbook features descriptions and actual selling prices for historic quilts sold, reflecting the authors’ 15 years of research at auction and estate sales. There are also invaluable hints for starting a collection, caring for old quilts, and making new ones based on vintage patterns.
Give your home that special feel of days gone by with this new volume of classic, traditional quilts. Use vintage or reproduction fabrics to create one of 18 beautiful, antique designs-old-time favorites like Colorado Quilt, Sunshine Aster, Bow Tie, and Mother's Handkerchiefs...
The system unveiled here for dating heirloom quilts is based upon five characteristics--fabric, style, color, technique, and pattern. In recounting the method's evolution, which involved the examination of 900 date-inscribed specimens, Brackman imparts a colorful history of quilt making.
Recreate beautiful antique quilts from the pioneer days of the 1820s to the wartime 1940s—and preserve the stories they tell about America’s quilting heritage. Twenty antique quilts are pictured in detailed color photos with fascinating information about each of the originals in their era...
A book which presents 45 antique crib and doll-size quilts dating from 1840 to 1940. Patterns and step-by-step instructions are given for each one, along with hints on how to create original quilts based on these traditional designs.
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...
As one of the thirteen original colonies, Connecticut made unique contributions to the development of America's textile industry. Until now, however, quilts from this historic state have only been viewed in bits and pieces through other states' documentation projects and museum collections...
This book contains hundreds of color photographs that identify, illustrate, and evaluate antique textiles of interest in the marketplace today, including quilts, coverlets, Marseille spreads, bonnets, Amish socks, aprons, petticoats, and other fashions for the body and home...
Well known quilt dealer and fabric designer Mary Koval is presenting patterns for favorite antique animal quilts, from her personal collection to the public. Now quilters can replicate these rare quilts from this incredible book.