Listen up all you History Buffs. This week’s giveaway is Making History- Quilts & Fabric from 1890-1970 by Barbara Brackman.
No one can dispute the fact that Barbara knows her stuff when it comes to quilts and fabric history. This book spills over with the fruits of her passion in the form of Photos, stories, insights into the role of fabrics in everyday life, and 9 vintage inspired quilt projects. The book is broken down into 4 time periods: Machine Age, Arts and Crafts Movement, Modernism, and Atomic Age.
So let the comments fly (here or on Facebook by 8/24/09) and have a chance at winning a copy of this amazing book. Let us know what peaks your interest in the history of quilts and fabric from years past. Maybe it’s stories, photos or quilts you’ve inherited or perhaps your own quilt journey. Look forward to hearing from you all and good luck!
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I’d love to own that book! I collect vintage linens and old quilt tops and orphan blocks from yesteryear and turn them into contemporary finished projects. Yesterday’s forgotten treasures into tomorrow’s heirlooms! This book would love to be in my library — and you are so right — Barbara knows her stuff! I’m so in love with her William Morris fabric line . . .
I love using old design/patterns and remaking them in today’s fabrics. The book looks like it be a treasure trove of information.
What a great book. My family has no quilted or other handmade heirlooms, so I am creating them… Hope they will be loved by those now and to come!
I love historical fabric and the stories behind old quilts. 1930s quilts and Civil War quilts are favorites. I would love to read this book :)
I love feeling the connection to our quilting fore-mothers. Sounds like an awesome book!
Karen
What a great book. My family did not have any textile heritage. But I certainly love the look of the Civil war era and the 30′s. This book would be a wonderful addition to my library.
I would love to own a copy of that book! My husband’s family has a quilt tradition and we have several quilts made by his grandmother and aunts which we treasure. I love looking at old quilts and thinking about the lives those women lived.
My interest in quilts started with an antique. Now that I am a quilter myself, I am still drawn to traditional patterns more than any other quilts. Recently, I have begun to explore ideas for quilts from William Morris designs. I can’t wait to see this book!
I love antique quilts. This book looks fabulous. It would find a welcome place in my home. :)
i have been quilting for about 20 years and plan on retiring at the end of this year in order to quilt pretty much full-time. i am *still *enamoured with traditional quilts and the herstory of the women who created them. we have so much to make our lives flow and they had to scrape by–imagine having only one needle!
Wow, what a wonderful book. I really like reproduction fabrics but have a hard time working out what time frame they originally come from!
I am working on my City and Guilds Certificate in textiles which entalis knowing lots about quilting history, and I teach at a local store so this book would be incredibly useful to me to fill out some of my knowledge about quilting history and textiles.
Looks like an interesting book. I love to read about historical quilts and related stories. I’ve been quilting since I was a child and learned from my grandmother who was an avid quilter in the mid-west. Lucky for those that have their family stories captured in books, but for those that don’t, I’ve found such books are still delightful. Can’t wait to see this one.
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
I love hearing a good story connected to a quilt…even if its just who the maker was…and love combing over old quilts to look at fabrics and see how the women made do with what they had.
thanks for the chance at this book.
krousegirl2 at aol dot com
It’s always interesting to date quilts by their fabric. The history we’ve been told isn’t always correct!
I love exploring old quilts and the stories behind them. We have a number of family quilts, with completely different styles and skill levels depending on which side of the family made them. Some were very skilled seamstresses —- Others barely had basis skills.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(Dot)com
I love old quilts and the stories behind the people and the fabric. It amazes me how resourceful these women were. I think we often take the selection and quality we have today at our fingertips for granted.
I have followed Barbara Brackman’s career & have originals of some of her oldest books. I would, truly, love to own this latest in her long line of excellent publications. Yah! Barbara! Congrats on another book !
I have a few old quilts, and have recently joined a group that meets monthly to share old quilts and have a book study. This book might make the list of the next book we read and discuss. Thanks.
My own journey as a quilter was inspired by a quilt I slept under as avery young child, made by a great grandmother I never got to meet. That quilt, appliqued flowers of all colors, fascinated me and fostered a love of fabric.
I would love to win this book, I have a small collection of vintage fabric which brings me much joy.
Thanks for the chance.
We were a very transient family, so we didn’t have any heirlooms. My sister-in-law’s family was very stable, and she has beautiful heirlooms, including old quilts. So nice.
This book is going to be amazing and I can’t wait to check it out! Who else but Barbara Brackman could turn textile history into an exciting journey into the past. I love to daydream when using fabrics…I picture myself in the style of clothes and living the life I could have lived in earlier times. The 30′s are a fun place for me to daydream about. I also enjoy reliving the 60′s and early 70′s through todays latest retro fabrics and colors. And paisley! I’m so glad it finally made it back to the mainstream! You couldn’t find paisley anywhere for quite awhile. The Civil War era isn’t a place I daydream about, but I do enjoy looking at all of the shirting prints and fabrics dyed using Indigo and Madder Root. Textiles are continually changing and it’s so fun seeing fabrics as they’re released. Todays fabrics are often associated with a particular designer, and I wonder if that’s how they’ll be remembered…the ultra brights of Kaffe Fasset, the huge prints by Amy Butler, etc. We live in an exciting time!
I am very interested in learning more about old quilts. I live in a 1925 Craftsman Home and would like a make a quilt from that time period. This book would be wonderful to own.
Kathleen
Looks like a wonderful book. We all love fabric and want to learn more about it.
I have a quilt top that I’d love to identify…
I too love the history behind quilts. I have family pieces and also any needlework produced down through the generations. What a wonderful giveaway.
Debra
I love looking at old quilts and translating them into funky quilts with modern fabrics!
I inherited three quilts from my great-grandmama and grandmama and would love to research them. I am also a mad Wm Morris collector and adore Barbara B’s Morris line! I can’t get enough of those textiles he and his colleagues created.
A book to start more serious research with would be great!
Suzanne G in NC
I would love to win this book, to learn more about the women who quilted before us.
I love traditional quilts and I’ve great respect for anyone who finishes a quilt, especially if it is made by hand in difficult conditions we can hardly imagine.
All the other housework and farmwork those women had to do by hand, no fabric shop around the corner or an online quiltshop that delivers quickly.
Quilt history is so interesting – and I know I don’t know nearly enough about it. I love to look at old quilts. I love the way some of them are clearly very old and some look like they could have been made today.
I have a quilt from the 30-40s that my mom made. The fabrics fascinated me when I was a child, and was the beginning of my love of quilts and quilting, so I still love the reproduction 30s and 40s fabrics. I also have always been attracted to paisley prints – 3 of my last 4 quilts have paisleys in them.
History is a joy to see/read through the quilts of the period. Barbara Brackman has much to offer all of us who love the history of quilts. Another thing that interests me is the women quilting during the periods that she has researched. I would be ticked to receive the book and would enjoy sharing it with the women I quilt with.
I love the feeling of being a part of a long tradition of (mostly) women who create and surround themselves (and their family and friends) with beautiful works of art. I’ve checked this book out several times and keep thinking about purchasing it; how awesome would it be to win it?
Hello!, I’m in a quilting class and in our first day of school the teacher gave us a review about the old quilts, I have to say that I was curious with quilting before that class, it just peeked my curiosity, I’d like to learn about old quilts, as an example: red and blue quilts, and the fabrics the quilters used, I’ll die if I have the chance to have an old quilt, but I guess, I’ll be fine if I win the book, lol, http://www.arlette0521.blogspot.com
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