Clues in the Calico
Author: Barbara BrackmanDetails: 200 pages, color
Price: $19.99
In Barbara’s critically acclaimed book, Clues in the Calico, she hands the reader a spy glass and off they go, sleuthing up one track and down another, in search of details about unmarked antique quilts.
Learn to systematically date antique quilts using Barbara’s discriminating methods. Clues in the Calico tells not only what Barbara Brackman has learned about dating quilts from her own classification system, but also summarizes published information about quilts and related textiles on which she bases her system.
It deals first with the history of American quilts from 1750 through 1950 from the perspectives of social influences, technological developments, and fashion, household decoration and artistic taste.
Subsequent chapters discuss quilts in terms of fiber, fabric, color, techniques, style, and pattern, assigning names whenever possible, organizing categories and evaluating clues. In these chapters we view the different aspects of quilts from three major perspectives: names, categories and clues.
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