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Quilting News of Yesteryear: Crazy as a Bed Quilt
Sue Reich
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Description for Quilting News of Yesteryear: Crazy as a Bed Quilt
Num Pages: 200 color photos. BIC Classification: WF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 688.
From the early 1880s through the second quarter of the twentieth century, American women made crazy quilts in colossal numbers. The velvets, satins, silks, wools and cottons of the crazy quilt era reflect abundance in the economy of the society-at-large. Just as they filled their scrapbook albums with trade cards, calling cards, photos and memorabilia, crazy quilt makers embellished their quilts with their most favorite things. The result was newsworthy...literally. Newspapers picked up on the accomplishments of these talented women and shared them with their communities. This new book contains over 200 newspaper articles dating from 1880 to 1945 that ... Read more
From the early 1880s through the second quarter of the twentieth century, American women made crazy quilts in colossal numbers. The velvets, satins, silks, wools and cottons of the crazy quilt era reflect abundance in the economy of the society-at-large. Just as they filled their scrapbook albums with trade cards, calling cards, photos and memorabilia, crazy quilt makers embellished their quilts with their most favorite things. The result was newsworthy...literally. Newspapers picked up on the accomplishments of these talented women and shared them with their communities. This new book contains over 200 newspaper articles dating from 1880 to 1945 that ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764327957
SKU
V9780764327957
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2
About Sue Reich
Sue Reich began her interest in the study of quilt history with the Connecticut Quilt Documentation Project in 1991. A quiltmaker since childhood, she lectures widely on many aspects of quilt history, co-authored Quilts and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut ,and wrote Quilting News of Yesteryear: 1000 Pieces and Counting. She is a certified AQS quilt appraiser.
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