Made to Remember: American Commemorative Quilts.
Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1991. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps. 48 pp. Many color and bw plates. More
Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1991. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps. 48 pp. Many color and bw plates. More
Katonah, New York: Katonah Gallery, 1986. Softcover. Off-white pictorial wraps; 40 pp.; 34 figures, 2 color and 32 bw. Accompanied an exhibition held at the Katonah Gallery in Katonah, New York in 1986; Includes information about Navajo history and weaving; Seventy-eight items listed. More
Hagerstown, Maryland: Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, 1974. Softcover. Red-and-white illus. stapled wraps; Unpaginated, 20 pp.; 7 bw figures. Accompanied a bicentennial presentation; Lists 70 items with annotations. More
1987. Softbound. Bluish illustrated wraps. 120 pp. few color, many bw plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Bucknell University from May to June, 1987. Includes 12 short, illustrated papers or essays on diverse topics related to quilts and textiles. Index a t rear. Uncommon, and extremely insightful and..... More
1987. Softbound. Bluish illustrated wraps. 120 pp. 35 small bw, 123 large color plates. Published to accompany an exhibition held at Bucknell University from May to June, 1987. Includes quilt documentation and numerous kinds/patterns of traditional quilts in vivid color. Each quilt annotated, and, in several cases, with a picture..... More
L'Isletville, Quebec: Nilus/Leclerc, 1971. Softcover. Red/white illus. wraps with red/black lettering. 80 pp. with 176 bw illus. English edition. All kinds of information in 15 chapters, followed by 3 appendices: Calculating Table for Reed, Count of Thread, and a Lexicon. More
New York: Museum of Contemporary Crafts, 1970. Softcover. Patterned stapled wraps. 36 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Includes essay by Nell Znamierowski, examples of fabrics and examples of Liebes' fabrics found in interior and fashion design. More
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, 1944. Softcover. Grey and green stapled wraps; Unpaginated, 16 pp.; 6 bw figures. Lists twenty-eight woven and sixteen printed textiles featured in the exhibition; Includes bw figures of award-winning entries by Edna Vogel, Marianne Strengell Dusenbury, Robert D. Sailors..... More
San Francisco, CA: Quilt Digest Press, 1985. Softcover. Color wraps. 135 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. A captivating look into the history of American quilting, and the stories of the women behind the works. Lots of anecdotal family history and fascinating, uniquely American stories are accompanied by many old..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1931. Hardcover. Blue cloth with embossed pattern. xvi, 267 pp. 62 bw plates. Extensive history of textiles and the textile industry in early America. More
Jackson, MI: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1989. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 79 pp. Illustrated in bw and color. Prepared as the catalogue for an April 1989 exhibition at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson. The authors examine several nineteenth century Mississippi women and their roles..... More
1999. Color wraps. 39 pp. Numerous color plates. More
NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976. Hardcover. Red cloth/black DJ. 336 pp. 400+ color & bw plates. This book reviews over 60 collections of textiles, from exotic Peruvian handweaving and Indonesian batiks to the pioneering work of contemporary designers such as Sheila Hicks and Jack Lenor Larsen. The purpose of..... More
Watertown, NY: Jefferson County Historical Society, 1985. Softcover. Grey ill. wraps. 71 pp. 24 bw plates. Exhibition organized by Margaret M. Shaeffer. Essays by Virginia Parslow Partridge and Rita Adrosko. Exhibition traveled in 1984-1985. Lavish illustrations of 19th century quilts. More
Ithaca, NY: Six Mile Creek Press, 2011. Hardbound. Hardbound with illustrated wraps and embossed text. 96 pp. Contains 37 color plates of small quilt studies from 2010. Nice little book from a small press. More
Flint, Mich. Gwen Marston, 1980. Softcover. Glossy white & illus. stapled wraps, 20 pp., 25 BW illus. An early catalogue of quilts collected by Michigan quilter and collector Mary Schafer (1910-2006). Only a few years earlier, Mary had begun to exhibit her quilts at the Whaley Historical Home in Flint..... More
New Haven, Connecticut: Bard Graduate Center in association with Yale University Press, 2011. Hardcover. Yellow textured paper boards with black titles. 432 pp. Many illustrations, mostly in color. In 1940, Hans Knoll founded a company in New York that soon earned a reputation for its progressive line of furniture. Highlighting..... More
London/New York: Merrell, 2004. Hardcover. Cream cloth boards, color-illustrated dust jacket with white and gray lettering. 191 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Portraits. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Arts & Design, New York; the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pa.; and Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal. Contents as..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968. Hardcover. Maroon cloth, yellow ill. DJ. xviii, 307 pp. 9 bw figs, 53 tables, Analyzes business models of leading corporations to evaluate trends and cycles in the cotton textile industry. More
Paducah, Kentucky: American Quilter's Society, 1992. Softcover. Multi-colored stapled wraps with white lettering; 31 pp. with 19 color illustrations. Catalogue from the exhibition held in four US locations; with an introductory essay by McMorris and comments about the quilts and quilt-making by Crow; includes biographical material. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1984. Softbound. Color illustrated wraps. 127 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and bw. The work offers highlights of the "Crazy Quilt" period (1876-1900), with considerable detail and delightful color and bw plates. More
1993. Softcover. White ill. wraps. 59 pp. Numerous bw plates. Essays by Katharine W. Fernstrom and Anita Jones and gorgeous illustrated examples of Inuit textile designs. More
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983. Hardcover. Dissertation. Gray cloth, 328 leaves photocopied from microfilm onto 164 leaves side-by-side, 2 maps, 2 BW illus. Dissertation. "The Calcha, a Quechua-speaking Andean ethnic group in southern Potosi, Bolivia, weave cloth which they continue to use in their marriages, households, hamlets..... More
[Guatemala City, Guatemala]: Museo Ixchel del Traje Indigena de Guatemala, 1987. Softcover. Green & white & illus. wraps, 132 pp., BW and color illus. Text is in Spanish. Provides details of clothing and costume worn by people in Colotenango, Gutatemala. Includes weaving instructions with diagrams, as well as pictures of..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1991. Hardcover. Black cloth, color pictorial DJ. 464 pp. 1823 color ills. Covering two hundred years of European and American fabric design from the late 18th to the late 20th century, Textile Designs presents a cross section of the printed materials that decorated our rooms..... More