Books - New and Old

The latest edition to our Quilting Library is "Inlaid Patchwork in Europe from 1500 to the Present" which documents and discusses 70 inlaid patchworks held by various museums and private collections.  We became interested in this patchwork technique some years ago and even more so after attending lectures by Annette Gero and also Pam Holland.

We also managed to find this book secondhand on the Net which presents more than 60 quilts from mid eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.

Another wonderful new book for the library is "19th Century Embroidery Techniques" by Gail Marsh.

An Op Shop find was this Quilting Manual by Dolores A. Hinson which was published over 40 years ago.  I just love looking at the type of project popular at that time and the techniques used.

Some wonderful reading and inspiration waiting for us here.

Till next time
Frances

Comments

Shirley said…
Some good reading there for your library Frances. For me the quilts that sing to me are the ones with beautiful hand quilting such as the one on the Smithsonian book. I am always in awe of their patience in creating something so wonderful and of course the feel of it is so soft.
Love Shirley.x
January 28, 2011 at 1:22 AM
Joan said…
Love those books especially the Smithsonian one...I bet there are some wonderful quilts in there - how wonderful that you were able to get one
January 30, 2011 at 1:53 AM
Lisa said…
Your books all look great. The Inlaid Patchwork one looks very interesting. Let me know how you like it.
February 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM
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