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Title: Bits and Pieces: Textile Traditions by Jeannette Lasansky, Virginia Gunn ISBN: 0-8122-1362-9 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: July, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: MUST HAVE FOR QUILT HISTORIAN/COLLECTOR
Comment: Part of Oral Traditions Project-Covers broad spectrum of topics by 12 authorities including quilt historians,folklorists & social historians Virginia Gunn, Nancy Roanm Patricia Herr, Tandy Hersh, Jeanette Lasansky, Patricia Keller, Kathy Sullivan, Laurel Horton, Cuesta Benberry, Barbara Brackman, Mary Cross, Rachel Maines. Book Explores & chapters include Late 19th century dress fabrics & period quilts, Fabrics used by Penn-German Farm Families, Small piece, Appliqued, and Quilted Objects in Penn-German Household, Penn-German Pillowcase, Dowry Quilts, Lancaster County Marriage Quilts, German Quiltmaking, S. Carolina's Dutch Fork Textile Traditions, Penn-Dutch Patterns nationalisation in 1940s-1960s, Influence by Fairs & Expostions, Oregon Quilt Contest, Needlework Technology in Industrial Era - This is a serious scholarly study with full Bibliography for each chapter - good large examples of dress fabrics are pictured, rare objects like Amish birds from Mufflin County, Penn, Quiltmakers bios, quilt provonance are documented.