The system unveiled here for dating heirloom quilts is based upon five characteristics--fabric, style, color, technique, and pattern. In recounting the method's evolution, which involved the examination of 900 date-inscribed specimens, Brackman imparts a colorful history of quilt making.
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Clues in the Calico is the bible.,
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This review is from: Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts (Paperback)
Best source for quilt history information. Details of textile technology, trends in style, along with elements of social history allow the reader to interpret handmade quilts. The quilt history researcher will return to this text time and time again. Fawn Valentine
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Best Quilt Book I Own,
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This review is from: Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts (Paperback)
I purchased this book several years ago in preparation to becoming a certified quilt appraiser, It proved to be invaluable. I have used it so much it is literally falling apart. I have highlighted it's pages until it looks like like they were colored to begin with. I consider it to be the best guide for fabric identification on the market. I own many quilt books on lots of subjects, but this is my favorite.Thelma L. Stone
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The super information makes up for the lack of visual appeal,
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This book could use a lot more pictures. It is a great source of written information, but does not provide much help in the visual identification of calico fabrics. Eileen Jahnke Trestain's book is much more useful in providing pictures, but Trestain's book does not come close to providing the written documentation and depth of discussion that Barbara Brackman does in Clues in the Calico. I use both books and they are great companion guides for solving the mysteries presented when you attempt to identify the age of old fabrics, especially in old crazy quilts. HOWEVER, in general, I find I refer to the Trestain book more often than the Brackman book.
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- Kansas Quilts and Quilters by Barbara Brackman on page 64, and page 175
- Hidden in Plain View: A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Jacqueline L. Tobin in Back Matter
- West Virginia Quilts: And Quiltmakers by Fawn Valentine in Back Matter
- Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design by Virginia Tuttle Clayton in Back Matter
- The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy by Christina Schaefer; Christina Kassabian Schaefer in Back Matter
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