Author: Roberson, Ruth Haislip (editor)
Title: North Carolina Quilts
Description: Chapel Hill, NC & London, The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Softcover. Red wraps with color illus and cream lettering. 214 pp. color & BW illus. "Features color photographs of more than 100 quilts crafted in North Carolina between the early nineteenth century and 1976. Included are chintz applique quilts, intricately pieced and appliqued quilts, crazy quilts, and examples of ingenious thrift in quilting with found and salvaged materials. The quilts were chosen from more than 10,000 that owners brought to be recorded by the North Carolina Quilt Project during a statewide series of Quilt Documentation Days in 1985-86. Because the quilts are privately owned, many have never been seen publicly. The text presents the lives and times of the quiltmakers, accompanied by many vintage photographs from family collections." (dj of hardcover) With essays by Ellen Fickling Eanes, Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick, Sue Barker McCarter, Joyce Joines Newman, Ruth Haislip Roberson, and Kathlyn Fender Sullivan. VG- Edge wear to wraps. Slight tanning of pages. Contents otherwise clean and tight.
Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; North Carolina Quilts ; ; Needlework - American
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Title: North Carolina Quilts
Description: Chapel Hill, NC & London, The University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Softcover. Red wraps with color illus and cream lettering. 214 pp. color & BW illus. "Features color photographs of more than 100 quilts crafted in North Carolina between the early nineteenth century and 1976. Included are chintz applique quilts, intricately pieced and appliqued quilts, crazy quilts, and examples of ingenious thrift in quilting with found and salvaged materials. The quilts were chosen from more than 10,000 that owners brought to be recorded by the North Carolina Quilt Project during a statewide series of Quilt Documentation Days in 1985-86. Because the quilts are privately owned, many have never been seen publicly. The text presents the lives and times of the quiltmakers, accompanied by many vintage photographs from family collections." (dj of hardcover) With essays by Ellen Fickling Eanes, Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick, Sue Barker McCarter, Joyce Joines Newman, Ruth Haislip Roberson, and Kathlyn Fender Sullivan. VG- Edge wear to wraps. Slight tanning of pages. Contents otherwise clean and tight.
Keywords: American Decorative Arts ; North Carolina Quilts ; ; Needlework - American
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 165095
- Book number: 165095
See more books from our catalog: American Decorative Arts