Red & white quilts Infinite variety
Book - 2015
"This significant catalog is a highly detailed look at the world's most celebrated collection of red and white quilts. Like the Log Cabin or Baltimore-style, the red and white quilt is a hugely popular genre of quilting. Colorfast Turkey red dye became readily available in the mid-nineteenth century, so red and white quilts became extremely popular, due not only to the newness of the color but also because of the extremely vibrant and punchy contrasting color scheme. Featuring over 650 quilts from the past three centuries, this book is filled with the gorgeous and imaginative designs of feathered stars, diamonds, animals, oak leaves, baskets, lettering, and snowflakes, as well as fascinating examples of careful embroidery and appl...iqué. With inspiring handiwork, designs, and visual histories, this book exemplifies the sheer magnitude and poetry of red and white quilts and is a staple compendium of this beloved art form." --
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Skira Rizzoli in association with American folk Art Museum, New York
2015.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
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- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Includes index.
Foreword by Martha Stewart. - Physical Description
- 352 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- ISBN
- 9780847846528
9780912161259
- Preface: The enchantment of red & white quilts / Anne-Imelda Radice, PhD
- Statement from the collector: Collecting infinite variety / Joanna S. Rose
- Foreword: American optimism / Martha Stewart
- Introduction: Infinite variety : how it happened / Elizabeth V. Warren
- Infinite variety : a personal recollection / Stacy C. Hollander
- Designing infinite variety / Tom Hennes
- A history of red & white quilts / Elizabeth V. Warren
- Photo essay: Park Avenue Armory installation / Gavin Ashworth
- Methodology / Elizabeth V. Warren & Maggi Gordon
- Wholetop quilts
- Log cabin quilts
- Pictorial quilts
- Traditional patchwork quilts: strips, squares & rectangles
- Traditional patchwork quilts: triangles
- Traditional patchwork quilts: stars
- Traditional patchwork quilts: curves
- Decorative appliqué quilts
- Signature quilts
- Redwork quilts
- Crib & other small quilts