Warman's Vintage Quilts: Identification And Price Guide [Paperback]

Maggi Mccormick Gordon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2008

Immerse yourself in the rich history, inspiring tales and fascinating colors and designs of vintage American quilts explained and explored in Warman?s Vintage Quilts. The 350 fresh, evocative, never-before-seen color photos of the 300+ vintage quilts, created between the 1880s and 1940, featured in this book encompass styles including chintz and reverse appliqu?, elaborate trapunto, Irish chains, patriotic pictorials, Pennsylvania Mennonite quilts with calico backs, among others.

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About the Author

Maggie McCormick Gordon is a renowned quilting expert, editor, and author of 14 books including American Folk Art Quilts, The Ultimate Quilting Book, The Quilter?s Sourcebook, 1000 Great Quilt Blocks, and two books with Krause Publications, The Complete Book of Quilting and Wisconsin Quilts: History in the Stitches.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Krause Publications (December 31, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896896870
• ISBN-13: 978-0896896871
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,662 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5-Star Resource For Quilt Lovers, Makers, & Designers, October 20, 2009

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S. L. Smith "SansSerif" (Back Home Again, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Warman's Vintage Quilts: Identification And Price Guide (Paperback)

As a quilt lover, I adore this book. I look to vintage quilts for ideas and inspiration, along with use of color and pattern. Turning the 250+ pages of this book is like touring a fine quilt museum and being able to take photos home with you.

As I marvel over each page, I love to imagine the quilt makers as they chose fabrics and colors. The section on Log Cabin design illustrates how very crafty the quilters were at embodying Sunshine & Shadow shadings, and even the most straightforward 1-patch or multi-patch designs come alive with strong use of color placement. The rather bland album-style quilts are also shown to be capable of surprising the viewer; a "Redwork Signature Quilt" from the 1920's delights in the way the signatures themselves are used to form the block outlines.

There is a brief section on African American Quilts, but it is unceremoniously placed toward the very end of the book. This could be because they are scarce and hard to date, as the author states, but they deserve more prominence and depth than is provided here. A little more hard research and several more examples would have been wonderful.

But if you are a vintage quilt collector, appraiser, or re-seller, this might not be the best resource for you. While this book has over 300 fine examples with lovely photos, there is not much detail for each piece. Only one or two sentences describe each quilt, although the author does supply about 20 pages of text as an introduction. But even this is somewhat simplistic; I personally would rather have seen more written for each quilt individually.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Warman's Vintage Quilts, January 19, 2009

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The book with values is useful to me as a quilt appraiser, but is lacking two things in the description of each quilt: 1) the condition of each quilt
and
2) the measurements of each quilt.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Warman's Vintage Quilts, April 5, 2009

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S. Williams "textile artist" (Atlanta, Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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Excellent book on value and variety of vintage quilts- when my brother and I were young my mother began cross stitching a quilt kit with stamped Baltimore Album quilt designs on it. Of course she was a working Mom and taking care of a husband and two kids and didn't get it completed. She worked on it for a number of years on vacation, etc. and has 80% of the designs cross stitched. We found it in this book valued at $750.00! Wow- I am urging her to finish it for the grand kids!