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Title: West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers: Echoes from the Hills by Fawn Valentine ISBN: 0-8214-1340-6 Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: MARVELOUS BOOK!
Comment: This is a marvelous book. Readers in other states will come away from it with new or changed views of West Virginia and its history. Author Fawn Valentine recognizes quilts as historic documents and is most persuasive in explaining and using material culture methodology to prove this. Yes, West Virginia quilters live primarily in rural areas, and many needed quilts as warm bedcovers. However, they also produced elegant silk quilts as examples of fine, decorative needlework.
As a quilt researcher in the adjacent state of Ohio I am fascinated by the similarities and differences between quilts in our two states, and Valentine's convincing explanations for them. Most of the quilts documented by the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search-even the oldest ones-were found near the places where they were made. The reason, she explains, is that West Virginians didn't move around much; they love place and family. They also had a strong desire to maintain traditional skills, which are "family ways."
Some quilt patterns were found only in discrete regions of West Virginia. Others (crazy quilts, for instance) continued to be made much later than was true in other states. Through extensive interviews with quiltmakers, the WVHQS learned of quilt pattern names and quilt-related language not found elsewhere. Through their oral interviews they also learned of a system of "barter economy" West Virginia quiltmakers used.
Most intriguing is Valentine's discovery of different quilting style, aesthetics, and designs associated with the quiltmakers' ethnic backgrounds: German-American, British, Scotch-Irish and Welsh. She presents this information early in the book, preparing the reader to recognize and identify the ethnicity of quiltmakers whose work is included later.
A series of appendices, including a summary of data and an extremely important timeline are helpful, as are the state maps included with almost every quilt, clearly identifying the counties where the quilts were made. As we discovered in the Ohio Quilt Research Project, Ohio is also a county-conscious state, so I felt right at home in West Virginia!
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful history of quilts and quiltmakers
Comment: This book provides a wonderful history of quilting and quiltmakers and is also inspirational for quilt design ideas. It is well-written and engaging, making a quilt documentation project very interesting to others. I highly recommend this book and it makes a perfect gift for any quilters.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Reference & Visuals!
Comment: The quilt scholar as well as the passionate amateur quilt historian will not be disappointed in this new release. Destined to be a classic reference for the future on the same scale as other books related to state quilt documentation projects. The information gathered and documented in "West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers" is extremely well documented and thoroughly covered. I have to say I am partial to applique quilts and this book did not disappoint! Some new patterns I have never seen in previously published books. I actually found a clue to a dead-end puzzle I had been researching! To sum it up...By far the best book published in recent years from a state quilt documentation project. Well worth the investment!
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Title: Mississippi Quilts by Mary Elizabeth Johnson, J. D. Schwalm ISBN: 1578063582 Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: North Carolina Quilts by Ruth Roberson, Ellen Fickling Eanes, George Holt ISBN: 0807842346 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Virginia Quilt Museum by Joan Knight, Polly Frye ISBN: 1574271059 Publisher: Howell Pr Pub. Date: 21 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Quilts and Quiltmakers: Covering Connecticut (Schiffer Book for Collectors and Designers,) by Connecticut Quilt Search Project ISBN: 0764314726 Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. Pub. Date: December, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stitches by Ellen Kort, Wisconsin Quilt History Project Staff, Stewart Wolfe ISBN: 1574271180 Publisher: Howell Pr Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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