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Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting
Kathryn Berenson
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Description for Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting
paperback. Traces the origins and the commercial development of needlework called "broderie de Marseille" Num Pages: 128 pages, ca. 125 illustrations (100 color, 25 b&w). BIC Classification: AFWH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 217 x 10. Weight in Grams: 576.
Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development of broderie de Marseille needlework. During the seventeenth century these supple, all-white corded and quilted furnishings—from bedcovers to quilted bodices and caps—grew out of the thriving textile trade centered on France’s Mediterranean port of Marseille as adaptations of popular foreign textile products. Broderie de Marseille is a form of three-dimensional textile sculpture using plain white cloth and white cotton cording, deftly manipulated with needle and thread to reveal patterns highlighted by the resulting play of light and shadow ... Read more
Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development of broderie de Marseille needlework. During the seventeenth century these supple, all-white corded and quilted furnishings—from bedcovers to quilted bodices and caps—grew out of the thriving textile trade centered on France’s Mediterranean port of Marseille as adaptations of popular foreign textile products. Broderie de Marseille is a form of three-dimensional textile sculpture using plain white cloth and white cotton cording, deftly manipulated with needle and thread to reveal patterns highlighted by the resulting play of light and shadow ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
International Quilt Study Center & Museum United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Lincoln, NE, United States
ISBN
9780981458243
SKU
V9780981458243
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About Kathryn Berenson
Kathryn Berenson is a world-renowned researcher in French and American textiles and the author of Quilts of Provence: The Art and Craft of French Quiltmaking.
Reviews for Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting
"Kathryn Berenson has written a book that combines the quilt's medieval literary roots, commercial history, technique, and development in a manner that is as informative as it is engaging. Once I began, I couldn't put it down."—Suzanne Smith Arney, Textile Society of America Newsletter "Kathryn is indisputably a specialist or even THE specialist of 'Marseille embroidery'. . . . An ... Read more