The Grand Generation - Memory, Mastery, Legacy by Mary Hufford; Marjorie Hunt; Steven Zeitlin
$15.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
Mennonite Quilts and Pieces by Judy Schroeder Tomlonson
$10.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: good
Quilts from the Civil War - Nine Projects, Historical Notes, Diary Entries by Barbara Ann Brackman; Liz Aneloski (Editor); Diana Roberts (Editor); Kandy Petersen (Illustrator)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
The History of the Patchwork Quilt - Origins, traditions and symbols of a textile art by Schnuppe Von Gwinner
$20.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
The origins, traditions and symbolism of patchwork in clothing and quilts are explored from multi-national examples over the past 500 years. This classic book now in its first English edition traces quilts across Europe and Asia and through the growing textile industry of North America. Color and black- ...Show more
For Purpose and Pleasure - Quilting Together in Nineteenth-Century America by Sandi Fox
$14.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Series: Needlework and Quilting Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Eighteen essays on nearly forty group-made quilts form a fascinating study of quilts as social documents. The author draws heavily from letters, diaries, and journals of the quiltmakers themselves. Illustrated and indexed.
Across Frontiers - Hispanic Crafts of New Mexico by Dexter Cirillo
$20.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
At last, a beautiful, authoritative survey of the thriving Hispanic craft movement of the Southwest. Tracing the roots and revival of arts brought to Mexico and the US by Spanish settlers, this book includes over 150 photographs representing the work of more than 80 contemporary artists. Gorgeous chapte ...Show more
The Quilt - A History and Celebration of an American Art Form by Elise Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
The most comprehensive history of quilts ever published, "The Quilt" explores the evolution and history of quilting from the first settlers of the New World to the present day. Showing in vivid color and patterns how Native Americans, African Americans, Amish, Hawaiian, Hmong, quilts celebrate cultural ...Show more
Quilts - A Living Tradition by Robert Shaw
$40.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
A look at the quilts for the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries from a variety of cultures around the country. Also includes a gallery of contemporary quilts.
Quilts in America by Patsy Orlofsky; Myron Orlofsky
$25.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
This wonderful treasury surveys nearly 300 years of quilt history, techniques, patterns, and styles. Originally stimulated by the desire for warmth and the need to economize, quilt-making evolved from an extremely practical enterprise into an elaborate and highly personal art form. From the simple, serv ...Show more
Quilt Stories by Cecilia Macheski (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Craft | Reading Level: very good
More than thirty stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts--written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women--document women's literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, A ...Show more
Hidden in Plain View - The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline L. Tobin; Raymond G. Dobard
$15.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
"There are five square knots on the quilt every two inches apart. They escaped on the fifth knot on the tenth pattern and went to Ontario, Canada. The monkey wrench turns the wagon wheel toward Canada on a bear's paw trail to the crossroads--" And so begins the fascinating story that was passed down fro ...Show more