| Making History - Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970: 9 Reproduction Quilt Projects - Historic Notes & Photographs - Dating Your Quilts | 
 enlarge | Author: Barbara Brackman
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 45720
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1571204539
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.46041
EAN: 9781571204530
ASIN: 1571204539
Publication Date: July 25, 2008
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Product Description
The comprehensive guide to fabrics, from the machine age to the atomic age! * Includes nine quilt projects inspired by vintage designs * Essential companion to Brackman?s America?s Printed Fabrics 1770-1890 Want to create new quilts with an authentic period look? Or discover the rich history of our country, unfolding through fabric? This fascinating book features author Barbara Brackman?s irresistible blend of scholarship and practical advice. Learn to choose reproduction prints for vintage designs and build a stash of period-flavor fabrics. Nine vintage-style quilt patterns capture historical style with piecing and applique. Packed with historic photos, stories, and insights into the role of fabrics in everyday life, Making History is a compelling page-turner as well as a practical quilting book.
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 History October 29, 2008
I was greatly impressed by the history of quilts and has inspired me to make more.
 Making History- October 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Excellent resource book. Great followup to Brackman's first book on the history of quilts. Great book. Highly recommend to everyone who is interested in historical quilts.
Sequel to America's Printed Fabrics August 29, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you want to learn to date fabrics found in quilts and cotton clothing, then this book is a must have. MAKING HISTORY Quilts and Fabrics covers the topics in the same detail and stylistic manner of America's Printed Fabrics, for the years 1890 to 1970. With this book, Barbara Brackman essentially finishes her update of Clues in the Calico, (1989).
If I were to use one word to describe the book's text, it is concise.She gives us a great deal of meaty information by combining period fabrics used for clothing, interiors furnishings, and quilts with interior and architectural design schools and wraps them into a synopses of their influence on patterned fabric's scale, color, weave and print.
Large swatches of original fabrics and reproduction prints are featured in exacting color photographs. Smaller quilt pictures show vintage ones. What is great, especially for someone new to dating fabrics, is that she goes back to the beginning dye history of a color and brings it forward to the focus of the years the chapter covers.
Barbara writes that her personal mission when doing research for this book was the discovery of why the look of quilts changed so much in the early 20th century, compared to the years before it. This book is a very interesting read as it draws from the greater field of textiles and interior design, with a wider focus than reproduction and antique fabrics and quilts.
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