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Kentucky quilts & their makers / Mary Washington Clarke ; photographs by Ira Kohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarke, Mary Washington, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quilting--Kentucky.
- Quilting.
- Quiltmakers--Kentucky.
- Quiltmakers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1976.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Kentucky's contribution to the perennially popular American craft of quiltmaking is a rich and varied one. Mary Clarke examines here the state of the craft in Kentucky and finds it as lively today as it was 150 years ago. Like a fingerprint, every Kentucky quilt differs from all others in some respects, whether it is an original creation or a variation of one of the traditional patterns long popular in the United States. And many Kentucky quilts reveal much about the individual maker -- her disposition, taste, and lifestyle, the familiar objects that bring joy to her daily life, and her response to events beyond the confines of family and home. Taken as a whole, Kentucky quilts and quilt names reflect the history of the Commonwealth, at every turn showing the intermingling of old and new in the grassroots continuity of an ancient craft that responds to fads and fashions by absorbing and refining them.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. ""It Gives Me Great Pleasure""; The Quilting Bee; Family Quitters; The Lone Quilter; 2. Frugality and Self-sufficiency; 3. Their Infinite Variety; Pieced Quilts: Angular Patterns; Pieced Quilts: Curving Patterns; Complex Pieced Patterns; Appliqued Quilts; Novelty and Special Occasion Quilts; 4. The Extravagant and Extraordinary; 5. By Any Other Name; Selected Sources; Index to Quiltmakers; Index to Pattern Names
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-8779-6
- 0-8131-5971-7
- OCLC:
- 901301980
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