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Author Eaton, Linda.

Title Quilts in a material world : selections from the Winterthur Collection / Linda Eaton.

Imprint New York : Abrams, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  746.4607475 Ea84q 2007    ---  Available
Description 207 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Note "In association with The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Inc."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-199) and index.
Contents My situation in life: the story of Mary Remington -- The hurry of work: the role of quilts in women's lives -- The bedspread gets along finely: making quilts in Early America -- Fabrics of the simple, but most important and necessary kinds: quilts and American textile production -- You may circumnavigate the globe: quilts and international trade -- The news of the peace: quilts and politics -- In themselves a textile museum: decorating with quilts in the early twentieth century.
Subject Quilting.
Quilts -- United States -- History.
Quiltmakers -- United States -- History.
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
Added Author Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.
ISBN 0810930129 (hardcover with jacket)
9780810930124 (hardcover with jacket)
Standard No. YDXCP 2513189
NZ1 10957508
AU@ 000040641098

 
    
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