Author: Nancy J. Martin
Publisher: That Patchwork Place
ISBN: 9781564773142
Category : Patchwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Bring back childhood memories of Grandmother's quilts with 13 projects that reflect the distinctive style of the 1930s. The bright, cheerful colors and simple patterns of '30s reproduction fabrics are featured in these charming quilt designs. Top designers include Nancy J. Martin, Carol Doak, Mimi Dietrich, Ursula Reikes, Sandy Bonsib, Sharon Yenter, Retta Warehime and more. Fun ideas for mixing and matching '30s-style fabrics. A fascinating history highlighting fabric designs and colors from the 1930's.
Author: Maxine Rosenthal
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1607050544
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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1 Great Fabric + 1 Block = 1 Stunning Quilt! • Brand new technique is all about texture, movement, sparkle, and swirl! • Choose hexagons or octagons-you're the designer • Easy random cutting! No planning, no fussy cuts, no mess-ups • Simple piecing with NO Y-SEAMS! Amaze your friends! Maxine shows you exactly how to choose a large-scale print, figure yardage, cut and piece these drop-dead gorgeous quilts. Big pieces and clever short-cut methods make these quilts go together faster than you'd think. Choose one of two projects or use the techniques in any size quilt you can imagine.
Author: Yvonne Barineau
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764320736
Category : Household linens
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Thousands of tablecloth manufacturers from the 1930s to early 1960s produced countless styles, colors, fabrics, and themes. This ultimate guide to printed tablecloths assists in identifying the manufacturers, dates, and values of these wildly popular collectibles. Cleaning and storage techniques are covered as well. A must-have resource for interior designers, antique dealers, and textile collector.
Author: Kyra E. Hicks
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9781476667102
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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One million African Americans spend approximately $118 million annually on quilting. Some believe that recent studies of oral histories telling of the role quilting played in the Underground Railroad have inspired African Americans to take up their fabric and needles, but whatever the reason, quilters like Faith Ringgold, Clementine Hunter, Winnie McQueen, and many others are keeping the African American traditions of quilting alive. This is the first comprehensive guide to African American quilt history and contemporary practices. It offers more than 1,700 bibliographic references, many of them annotated, covering exhibit catalogs, books, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, films, novels, poetry, speeches, works of art, advertisements, patterns, greeting cards, auction results, ephemeral items, and online resources on African American quilting. The book also includes primary research done by the author on the Internet usage of African American quilters, a listing of over 100 museums with African American-made quilts in their permanent collections, a directory of African American quilting groups in 29 states, and a detailed timeline that covers 200 years of African American quilting and needle arts events.
Author: Clare Hunter
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 168335771X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.
Author: Ami Polonsky
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1484748522
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
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Don’t miss Ami Polonsky’s stunning new novel, World Made of Glass To Whom It May Concern: Please, we need help! The day twelve-year-old Clara finds a desperate note in a purse in Bellman's department store, she is still reeling from the death of her adopted sister, Lola. By that day, thirteen-year-old Yuming has lost hope that the note she stashed in the purse will ever be found. She may be stuck sewing in the pale pink factory outside of Beijing forever. Clara grows more and more convinced that she was meant to find Yuming's note. Lola would have wanted her to do something about it. But how can Clara talk her parents, who are also in mourning, into going on a trip to China? Finally the time comes when Yuming weighs the options, measures the risk, and attempts a daring escape. The lives of two girls -- one American, and one Chinese -- intersect like two soaring kites in this story about loss, hope, and recovery.
Author: Maurine Noble
Publisher: Martingale
ISBN: 9781564772169
Category : Machine quilting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When it comes to machine quilting, there's a thread for every occasion, and an occasion for every thread. Now you can create dazzling, eye-catching quilts with all of the wonderful colors and textures of today's decorative threads. Eleven easy-to-follow exercises will show you how decorative threads can make your quilts sparkle and pop. Special techniques for quilting both through the needle and from the bobbin of your sewing machine. Convenient charts for determining which threads and needles will work best with your projects. Reliable methods for couching curves, appliqués, and angled shapes. Hints and advice on making adjustments to your sewing machine for optimum results.
Author: Carole Martinez
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609451066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A nineteenth century Spanish seamstress flees her village for Morocco in a novel with “a magical realist aspect . . . An epic sweep and a richness of characterization” (The Independent). They say Frasquita is a healer with occult powers; that perhaps she is even a sorceress. Indeed, she has a remarkable gift, one that has been passed down to the women in her family for generations. From mere rags, she can create gowns and other garments so magnificent, so alive, that they mask any defect or deformity. They bestow a blinding beauty on whoever wears them. But Frasquita’s gift makes others in her small Andalusian village jealous. And when her gambling husband brings misfortune on their family, Frasquita travels across southern Spain and into Africa with her five children in tow. Her exile becomes a quest for a better life, and a way to free her daughters from the fate of her family of sorcerers. “Like the beautiful frescoes of García Márquez, this novel is a marvelous and lyrical fairytale bursting with colorful characters” —La Revue Littéraire Des Copines
Author: Sally Dwyer-McNulty
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146961409X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Common Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
Author: Torill Kove
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780228100812
Category : Love, Maternal
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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"Academy Awarda-winning director Torill Kove explores the beauty and complexity of parental love, the bonds that we form over time, and the ways in which they stretch and shape us in this book adaptation of her 2017 film, Threads"--
