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Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
Marcia Kaylakie
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Description for Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
Hardcover. The author traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad other Texas communities large and small. This book showcases thirty-four of those quilts. Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest. Num Pages: 264 pages, 182 color photos, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; WFBQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 285 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1751.
This title is winner of Violet Crown Award, Writers League of Texas, 2008. For more than a decade, Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad other Texas communities large and small. Hidden away in closets, trunks, and attics, the quilts Kaylakie found are not only heirlooms but also, owing to their histories, irreplaceable emblems of Texas heritage. This book showcases thirty-four quilts. Through them and their stories, the cultural development of the state unfolds. ... Read more
This title is winner of Violet Crown Award, Writers League of Texas, 2008. For more than a decade, Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad other Texas communities large and small. Hidden away in closets, trunks, and attics, the quilts Kaylakie found are not only heirlooms but also, owing to their histories, irreplaceable emblems of Texas heritage. This book showcases thirty-four quilts. Through them and their stories, the cultural development of the state unfolds. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
Series
Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726062
SKU
V9780896726062
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Reviews for Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
Kaylakie has crafted a remarkably fine read, revealing privately held quilts that are touchstones ... She knows quilts with both (gloved!) hands, sharing their stories deftly.
Xenia E. Cord, President American Quilt Study Group ""The stories of these quilts are trapunto-puffed, fat and rounded, stuffed with the stuff of real people.""
Joyce Gibson Roach, fellow, Texas Folklore Society and Texas State Historical ... Read more
Xenia E. Cord, President American Quilt Study Group ""The stories of these quilts are trapunto-puffed, fat and rounded, stuffed with the stuff of real people.""
Joyce Gibson Roach, fellow, Texas Folklore Society and Texas State Historical ... Read more