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Title: Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960 by Eileen Trestain ISBN: 0-89145-884-0 Publisher: Collector Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Spiral-bound Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Reference, A fabric Lover's dream
Comment: Wow! What a fascinating education in fabrics and our history, the book is arranged in historical periods, each focusing on all things fabric: the why's and whens of dyes inventions and processes, evolution of taste in color and design, and particulars peculiar to quilting such as popular design styles of each period. This said, I'd buy the book just for the hundreds of photos of quilt swatches. Yum!
Rating: 5
Summary: AWESOME! Great visual identification guide....a MUST have!
Comment: This book is the one we've all been waiting for. It has literally the most definitive collection of clear, full color fabric swatch pictures of fabrics dating from 1800 to 1960 that has EVER been compiled and published in one easy to use spiral, hardbound book. Her explanations are cursory, but the pictures make this book my most often referred to book when dating old fabric and/or vintage quilts with their multitudes of different fabrics.
One neat thing about this book is that it lays open flat so you don't have to juggle with it to keep your place in the book while examining and comparing with your actual quilt or fabric. It has a great, and I mean GREAT, resource list with web site addresses including quilt societies, appraisers and museums, a full glossary of what all those "trade insider" words mean, and a very comprehensive bibliography.
I can't imagine how I got by without this book. It is the visual bible of quilt/fabric dating and identification. It deserves more than 5 starts, it is a gorgeous, useful, well documented and very organized fabric dating reference manual!
Rating: 5
Summary: My interior design students use this book
Comment: I used to do more quilting prior to my current career as a professor of interior design, but I still attend quilt shows and hoard fabrics. I have found this book to be a useful reference book for students developing research projects on historic interiors to help them understand the color schemes of various eras and the origins of dyestuffs and other coloring methods.
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Title: The Complete Guide to Vintage Textiles by Elizabeth M. Kurella ISBN: 0873416767 Publisher: Krause Publications Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Quilts from the Civil War: Nine Projects, Historic Notes, Diary Entries by Barbara Brackman, Liz Aneloski, Diana Roberts ISBN: 1571200339 Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns by Barbara Brackman ISBN: 0891458158 Publisher: American Quilters Society Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Fabulous Fabrics of the 50s (and Other Terrific Textiles of the 20s, 30s, & 40s) by Gideon Bosker, Michele Mancini, John Gramsted, Bruce Beaton, John Gramstad ISBN: 0811835200 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: American Quilts by Stella Rubin ISBN: 1840003812 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Pub. Date: 20 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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