Shows a variety of quilts depicting people and human activity, and discusses the materials, patterns, and techniques used

Wrapped in Glory: Figurative Quilts and Bedcovers, 1700-1900

Fox, Sandi

Thames&Hudson

Wrapped in glory: Figurative quilts & bedcovers, 1700-1900

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Small Endearments: Nineteenth-Century Quilts for Children

Scribner

Delightful images of a variety of felines adorning a collection of quilts dating from 1840 to the mid-twentieth century are accompanied by poetry and prose selections from Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, Mark Twain, and other notable writers and an authoritative discussion of the changing styles and techniques of quiltmaking over the past century. 12,000 first printing.

Cats On Quilts

Pets & Animal Care

Harry N. Abrams

The richly diverse legacy of California’s quilts is beautifully chronicled in words and images in this extraordinary collection spanning a century of quiltmaking. Here is the story of California’s quilts, from those California bound—carried on the backs of mules and horses, in covered wagons, by ship or by train—to those California made, created on the farms and in villages and cities across the state. Whether to remember friends and family back home, mourn loved ones lost, record cultural and historical events, or illustrate their new surroundings, California’s quiltmakers pieced, appliquéd, embroidered, and embellished cloth in an astonishing variety of quilts and bedcovers.In this volume, contemporary letters, diaries, and historical records provide authentic accounts of the social, political, and cultural contexts in which California’s quilts were brought west and worked there.

Quilts: California Bound, California Made, 1840–1940

History

Americas

FIDM Museum & Library

"A delightful book. Highly recommended." - Library Journal. With more than 250 illustrations, this book examines the history and images of quilts made for children and dolls. Indexed.

Small Endearments: Nineteenth-Century Quilts for Children and Dolls

Rutledge Hill Press

Examining the craft behind quilt-making and its part in history, a former Collection Curator of Quilts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art details the sources of quilt images in literature, social causes, the Bible, and more. Original. IP.

Thomas Nelson / Rutledge Hill Press

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.

For Purpose and Pleasure: Quilting Together in Nineteenth-Century America

Rutledge Hill Pr

Going West! Quilts and Community presents, in striking colour, over 50 19th-century quilts either made, or transported along the great migratory wagon trails, and reveals the essential role that quilts and quiltmaking played in the lives of frontier women. Pioneers heading for a new life in the Nebraska Territory packed their wagons with necessities that almost always included quilts, which were used as sturdy domestic bedding along the trail, or packed tenderly in the trunk as a tie to all that had been left behind. The quilts have been selected by independent curator and co-author Sandi Fox, with an essay on the history and social context of quilt-making by leading quilt scholar Roderick Kiracofe.

Going West!: Quilts and Community

Arts & Photography

Kiracofe, Roderick

History & Criticism

GILES

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