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Making History -- Quilts & Fabric from 1: 9 Reproduction Quilt Projects Historic Notes & Photographs Dating Your Quilts

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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.

I bought this book because I loved the quilt on the cover and I wanted the pattern and the description, etc. , but it turns out that everything else in this book is really ridiculously interesting too. I love the pictures and it looks like the author did a lot of research because the text is really interesting and informative. Her info has inspired me as I'm looking at fabric in different quilt stores now. I am actually making the quilt on the cover, with different colors, and I keep referring back to the book for more ideas. Plus, amazon has a great price. I am very pleased with my purchase. Only downside whatsoever is that the pattern for the quilt on the back cover is not included. Happy quilting!

Barbara Brackman is "my hero" - someone who has done all of the searching, organizing etc to give quilters who love antique quilts a way to making not copies --- but quilts inspired by our past! Just eat every word in her books, and this one is no exception! HIGHLY RECOMMEND

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.

I was greatly impressed by the history of quilts and has inspired me to make more.