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Title: Southern Quilts : Surviving Relics of the Civil War by Bets Ramsey, Merikay Waldvogel ISBN: 1-55853-598-5 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful tales featuring quilts in the Civil War
Comment: Ramsey and Waldvogel begin "Southern Quilts" with a discussion about the tradition and techniques of quilt making in the antebellum South, and then a review of how these efforts changed during the Civil War. The core of the book, however, is the oral history behind the varied and absolutely gorgeous quilts depicted in the book.
We hear about Barbara Broyles of Tennessee who had the unusual experience of having soldiers "unkind enough" to return quilts that she sent for their use in a nearby camp. (Usually quilts were not returned in these circumstances.) Why unkind? The quilts were infected with typhus from the diseases in camp and Broyles and her husband died four days later. Her perhaps-fatal trapunto-style white whole cloth quilt is one of the most beautiful in the book.
Also depicted is an Irish chain and applique quilt given to a wounded Union soldier who was stranded behind lines. The maker draped it over his shoulders to cover his blue uniform while he made his way back through Confederate-held territory.
My absolutely favorite story is the about Cave Hill Farm Quilt. During the war, a sickly Confederate soldier, who had escaped from a group of prisoners, showed up at Kinkead family's door, asking to be hidden from the Yankees. The mother directed him to a nearby cave, and gave him a feathered star quilt to keep warm. The family wondered whether he made it safely to the cave--until sometime after the war when the quilt was discovered in the cave. "Southern Quilts" illustrates this story not just with a "glamour shot" of the quilt but closeups of the damage done in the cave, and photographs of the Kinkead mother and daughters who created the quilt.
Among other quilts depicted are ones made to raise money for gunboats, quilts buried with the family silver, a quilt turned into a poncho for a soldier, quilts sent off to war, quilts similar to those covering the beds of generals on campaign, and commemoration quilts made after the war.
Especially interesting for me was a chance to see good close-up pictures of homespun and linsey-woolsey--fabrics to which southerners resorted due to the blockade.
Between the color photographs of quilts dating mostly from the 1840s to 1860s and interesting tales of individual experiences during the war, "Southern Quilts" is a book that I enjoy looking through again and again.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not Stellar, but Interesting
Comment: I was somewhat disappointed in this book -- lots of pictures of beautiful quilts, but not much else. I would have been happier just checking it out of the library, instead of adding it to my personal library. Plus, I failed to notice that it was soft cover; I prefer hardcover books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful history and photographs
Comment: Very interesting history of particular quilts during the Civil War. Many color photos of each quilt. Worth buying just for the beautiful photographs. After seeing the photos, the history of each quilt was just icing on the cake. Many of the quilts that were stolen or sold are traced to the original maker. Viewing what these Southern ladies made has inspired me to put more effort in my quilts!
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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: Hidden in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Raymond G. Dobard, Jacqueline L. Tobin ISBN: 0385497679 Publisher: Anchor Pub Pub. Date: 18 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Civil War Women: Their Quilts ¥ Their Roles ¥ Activities for Re-Enactors by Barbara Brackman ISBN: 1571201041 Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960 by Eileen Trestain ISBN: 0891458840 Publisher: Collector Books Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Quilts Of Tennessee : Images of Domestic Life Prior to 1930 by Bets Ramsey, Merikay Waldvogel ISBN: 1558536132 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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