The Visual Dance: Creating Spectacular Quilts (Paperback)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

A riot of color and an array of extraordinary designs mark this volume as a truly innovative and exciting approach to quilt design. Concentrating on color, proportion, and scale; the power of line and shapes; and other principles of good design, Wolfrom teaches how to create quilts that are radically different from the traditional. Landscapes, geometrics, abstracts, florals--every subject yields unusual and striking results. Even those loosely based on standard quilt patterns have been interpreted in surprising new ways. The quilts illustrated (by a variety of artists) are absolutely gorgeous; the inspiration power of these alone is worth the price of admission. --Amy Handy

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications; illustrated edition edition (November 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914881930
• ISBN-13: 978-0914881933
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #442,959 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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53 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for Quilters and Designers, April 23, 1999

By	Jody Palm "bookgoddess" (Greeneville, TN United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Not only are the quilts (in full color!) truly spectacular, but Joen is also the best teacher of the principles of design and color I've found in the "craft" world. Thank you, Joen, for choosing to teach us this stuff! Too often, the design and color aspects are "assumed" by the author of quilting books.

Absolutely the best book on quilting design there is. If you are looking for "how to" make the quilts, this is not the book. There are other books for that.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wolfrom ranks highest in quilters' eyes, May 1, 1997

By A Customer

I am an avid quilter and have over 80 books on quilting. Wolfrom's I refer to time and time again. The Magical Effects of Color and The Visual Dance are worthwhile additions to any quilter's library. 10+

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An invitation to The Visual Dance., September 4, 1997

By A Customer

The Visual Dance is the best book about how to quilt that I have read.

The text is encouraging, clear and informative and there are many pictures of astonishingly fine quilts. Although it would be the book I would choose to own if I had to own but one quilt book, it is interesting, beautiful and different enough from most quilt books that it would be worth having however many quilt books it joined.