Customer Reviews

American Coverlets & Their Weavers: Coverlets From Collection Of Foster & Muriel Mccarl (Williamsburg Decorative Arts Series)

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Bought the book for research on a coverlet passed down to me through family. It contains the information I needed and a great deal more information about coverlets and their backgrounds.

When we needed information on a specific weaver, John Kaufman, this was our best source. It was exactly what we needed for written information and photographs of early American weavings.

I have learned through my recent dive into genealogy that my gggrandfather was a weaver. So after discovering via GoogleBooks that he was included among the weavers, I excitedly bought this book. My hope was that I would learn some new information and actually see something he had created. However, he is one of the 700 weavers briefly referenced in the second half of the book with a short paragraph of information that I already knew taken from the census records. The first half of the book showcases beautiful coverlets of almost 50 weavers with a full page of information on both the coverlet and the weaver. Unfortunately, my gggrandfather was not among the 50.

If you are simply looking for a book on the history and background of coverlets and their makers, then I would highly recommend this book. It is beautifully illustrated, well-written, and very informative. If, however, you are hoping for extensive information on a specific weaver that you believe is included in the book, it would be wiser to find the book in a library first to see if your weaver and his work are actually showcased before purchasing the book. Lesson learned, but I will still keep the book because it is so well done, and the coverlets of his contemporaries are obviously reflective of his type of work.