North Carolina Quilts [Paperback] Review

I checked this book out of the Cashiers, North Carolina Library and spenta week browsing it. It has many fascinating color plates of NorthCarolina's historical quilts. There is an early embroidered farm scenequilt that is particularly spectacular and worthy of reproduction. Thereare also many black and white vintage photos of North Carolina's quiltersin period dress. I spent almost as much time looking at the vintageclothing photographs and the names of the women as I did the photos of thequilts. This is not a "how to quilt" book, but I think the photos and historical information in this volume would be beneficial to anyoneinterested in primary source research in vintage clothing and quilts ofsouthern origin.

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This magnificent volume 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 series of statewide 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.Whether these women made quilts to pass the time, warm their families, beautify their lives, or serve as symbols of love and togetherness, they used their fabric with uncommon artistry and craftsmanship.

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