Clues in the Calico: A Guide to Identifying and Dating Antique Quilts

by Barbara Brackman

Overview

In Clues in the Calico Barbara Brackman unveils a much-needed system for dating America's heirloom quilts. She tells how, by collecting and observing quilts and finally analyzing her computer file on close to 900 date-inscribed specimens, she arrived at the system. And through this telling she also imparts a colorful, stunningly illustrated history of quiltmaking along with a good bit of entertaining social history and the newest findings in textile research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571209184
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	11/17/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	59 MB
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About the Author

Barbara Brackman is well known as an authority on Civil War quilts, having written numerous books on quilt history. A founding member of the American Quilt Study Group and inductee to the Quilters Hall of Fame, Barbara lives in Lawrence, Kansas. civilwarquilts.blogspot.com