Quilts in America [Hardcover]

Patsy Orlofsky (Author), Myron Orlofsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1992

This work on traditional quilts offers guidelines for establishing the age of antique quilts and information on the areas of the country where they were made. Techniques, tools, fabrics and dyes are described in detail, along with all the known types and patterns of quilt and how to care for them.

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About the Author

Collectors for many years of quilts and other textiles, Patsy Orlofsky and the late Myron Orlofsky became scholars in this field and served as consultants to museums. Patsy Orlofsky is the director of the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, New York. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 368 pages
• Publisher: Abbeville Press (October 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558593349
• ISBN-13: 978-1558593343
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 9.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,463,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a truly definitve work, November 19, 1999

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rickey - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quilts in America (Hardcover)

a "must" for anyone interested in American art...or quilts in general. a consummate body of work that both surveys the topic and gets into details only when appropriately necessary. written with a passion and sensitivity that sheds new light on some very old cloth.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A needlecraft treasury spanning nearly three hundred years, May 12, 2005

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quilts In America (Paperback)

Quilts In America is a needlecraft treasury spanning nearly three hundred years of quilt history, techniques, patterns, and styles since America's colonial roots. Black-and-white and color plates illustrate a wide variety of historic quilts, while chapters discuss the evolution of quilts as both a practical craft and as folk art. Co-written by the director of the Textile Conservation Workshop in South Salem, New York, a nonprofit regional conservation laboratory devoted to rare and fragile textiles, Quilts In America is both an enlightening read and a reverberating experience especially for quilt lovers everywhere, and the vintage designs in the plates will prove inspirational for anyone interested in creating new quilts in historic American styles.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential book for quilt lovers, August 29, 2010

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This review is from: Quilts In America (Paperback)

A few years ago I was helping a friend of mine identify some 75 year old quilts that her Grandmother had made by hand as my friend wanted to estimate the value of them for insurance purposes. A lady I met on a quilting forum recommended this book to me. I had checked out numerous quilt books from the library before acquiring this book, and the other books beforehand were of no help to me at all. This Quilts In America book is written by two world-renowned quilt historians and was definitely what my friend and I were looking for. It's a beautiful book, too, almost coffee-table quality.

Edited to add: I have no idea why it says my purchase was a paperback - because I did get the hardcover edition. Probably some type of computer glitch. :)