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Summary: I love this book...
Review: This book is so excellent. The author thought out the book really well, like having a hardcover/spiral bound book so it's durable and can stay open flat. The colors are great, and all of the prints are reproduced in their *actual size* -- what you see is what it actually looks like! You can hold fabrics right up to the book and compare. The text is informative and fun to read; you'll learn a lot about textile production, color trends, and the evolution of cotton fabric. The book is divided into sections based on date and then subdivided by color. It's so much fun to look at the pictures! I feel like a little girl again, looking through my mom's neat boxes of old quilt scraps. This book is a must-have for anyone interested in old quilts or historic clothing.
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Summary: AWESOME! Great visual identification guide....a MUST have!
Review: This book is the one we've all been waiting for. It has literally the most definitive collection of clear, full color fabric swatch pictures of fabrics dating from 1800 to 1960 that has EVER been compiled and published in one easy to use spiral, hardbound book. Her explanations are cursory, but the pictures make this book my most often referred to book when dating old fabric and/or vintage quilts with their multitudes of different fabrics. One neat thing about this book is that it lays open flat so you don't have to juggle with it to keep your place in the book while examining and comparing with your actual quilt or fabric. It has a great, and I mean GREAT, resource list with web site addresses including quilt societies, appraisers and museums, a full glossary of what all those "trade insider" words mean, and a very comprehensive bibliography. I can't imagine how I got by without this book. It is the visual bible of quilt/fabric dating and identification. It deserves more than 5 starts, it is a gorgeous, useful, well documented and very organized fabric dating reference manual!
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Summary: Wonderful Reference, A fabric Lover's dream
Review: Wow! What a fascinating education in fabrics and our history, the book is arranged in historical periods, each focusing on all things fabric: the why's and whens of dyes inventions and processes, evolution of taste in color and design, and particulars peculiar to quilting such as popular design styles of each period. This said, I'd buy the book just for the hundreds of photos of quilt swatches. Yum!
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