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Barn quilts and the American Quilt Trail movement / Suzi Parron with Donna Sue Groves.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parron, Suzi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barns--United States--Pictorial works.
- Barns--Canada--Pictorial works.
- Outdoor art--United States--Themes, motives.
- Outdoor art--Canada--Themes, motives.
- Culture and tourism--United States--Pictorial works.
- Culture and tourism--Canada--Pictorial works.
- Culture and tourism.
- Outdoor art.
- Themes, motives.
- Barns.
- Canada.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 234 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Swallow Press/Ohio Univewrsity Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- " The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map. Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves's desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, registered quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred driving trails. With more than fifty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon. "-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Trail Begins 1
- The Adams County Quilt Sampler 9
- New Pegs Along the Line 23
- Barbara Webster Day 33
- Buffalo Gals 41
- Tennessee 49
- Kentucky 71
- North Carolina 91
- Ohio 109
- Iowa 131
- Illinois 161
- Wisconsin 171
- Michigan 179
- Loving Tributes 189
- The Quilt Trail Comes Full Circle 197
- Blanketing the Country with Quilts 201
- The American Quilt Trail 223.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804011389
- 0804011389
- OCLC:
- 724662689
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