Collecting Quilt Books
My daughter frequently comes home from book stores, gift shops, quilt shops, and yard sales with quilting and fabric art books we don’t have. Often these are older books, no longer in print.
Recently she found for me, Twentieth Century Quilts, 1900-1950 by Thomas K. Woodward and Blanche Greenstein with information, illustrations, and photos of quilts during that period. Also, the authors included information about the history of quiltmaking in America.
They mentioned the revival of interest in quilting after 1900. This was an era, according to the authors, that “witnessed a fascinating and relatively unexplored flourish of quiltmaking [in America].” Then this tapered off at the onset of World War II because so many were busy with the war efforts. [Then quilting experienced another revival with the Bicentennial years of the mid-1970s.]
I find this book particularly interesting because it contains designs and fabrics of my childhood, when I sat beside my grandmother in her kitchen, cutting pieces and stitching quilts for my sister, brothers, and myself.
I find fabrics…the history of them, the eras they date, and events they depict… fascinating and like to collect them. This book gave me a step back in time to fabrics and quialt designs of a former era.
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