Featuring the essence of an enormous and rare assortment of early American and vintage fabrics, this guide preserves history while making it. For the first time, the best of this world-renowned collection is preserved through print, extending its life and accessibility. With over half a century of work in the fabric design business, Manny Kopp was the top fabric designer for major textile companies. His lifelong passion was to collect and catalog nineteenth-century samples of beautiful and unusual fabric from mills in America and Europe. His priceless collection includes designs by some of the finest craftsmen of the time, such as William Ashton. Many of the fabrics are on permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution and other prestigious museums. Celebrate the life of a legend and catch a glimpse of an extraordinary piece of history through this reference. Over a thousand fabric samples include calico, plaids, stripes, conversation prints, flannelettes, indigoes, leno weaves, mourning prints, and many others.
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Bobbie A. Aug and Sharon Newman with Paul C. Kopp create Calico Man: The Manny Kopp Fabric Collection which profiles a huge, rare collection of over 1,300 swatches from Kopp s fabric holdings. Paired with a biography of Kopp s life and an overall survey of early American and vintage fabrics from 1830 to 1925, Calico Man is intriguing and revealing.-Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch Newsletter, November 2005
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Bobbie Aug and Sharon Newman met in Paducah, Kentucky, at the 1989 American Quilter's Society Show. Both were in the first group tested and certified as quilt appraisers by AQS. Currently, both serve as members of the AQS Appraiser Certification Program Committee. Bobbie is a teacher, judge, quilt historian, quilt maker,and collector.
Bobbie Aug and Sharon Newman met in Paducah, Kentucky, at the 1989 American Quilter's Society Show. Both were in the first group tested and certified as quilt appraisers by AQS. Currently, both serve as members of the AQS Appraiser Certification Program Committee. Sharon also serves as the program's administrator.
Bobbie Aug and Sharon Newman met in Paducah, Kentucky, at the 1989 American Quilter's Society Show. Both were in the first group tested and certified as quilt appraisers by AQS. Currently, both serve as members of the AQS Appraiser Certification Program Committee. Sharon also serves as the program's administrator.
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Calico Man: The Manny Kopp Fabric Collection,
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Fantastically helpful book in dating fabrics! It features many designs and colors from the very early 1900s that are seldom shown elsewhere. Calico Man is a title I reach for again and again and has proven to be a valuable research aid.
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After reading the previous reviews, I was hesitant about ordering this book. I'm pleased that I overcame my hesitation, as I have found this book to be a wonderful aid in helping me to identify and date fabrics in my collection. The book is exactly what it claims to be----a collection of fabrics. Page after page of fabric swatches shown in full color. Most salesmen's samples from the late Victorian through the Edwardian eras. Definitely eye-candy for the textile enthusiast!
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Adds Little To The Knowledge of Fabric Creation and Usage,
By Triangle Waist Shirt (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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I have been in the textile industry going on 30 years now, and I bought this book in hopes of, perhaps, learning about the creation of certain fabrics and their application within several industries. After reading through a mini-biography of the owner of the fabrics (who evidently was "somebody" in the industry but who I never heard of), I saw photos of different types of fabric with no analysis or application information attached. I have to agree with the earlier reviewer who states that it appears that this is nothing more than a collection of fabrics that perhaps were gathered up and photographed to create a publishable book. It's certainly not large enough to be considered a pretty "table" book, and it doesn't contain much in the way of technical information. Given the opportunity to go back in time, I would pass on this one in favor of the more popular and well-known publishers on textiles.
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