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Title: Wild by Design: Two Hundred Years of Innovation and Artistry in American Quilts by Janet Catherine Berlo, Patricia Cox Crews, Carolyn Ducey, Jonathan Holstein, Michael James ISBN: 0-295-98309-4 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Know What You're Ordering
Comment: Unlike other reviewers, I was really disappointed in this book. Because of the cover picture, I was expecting another book similar to Quilt National or Quilt Visions, but it's not like that at all. There are only a couple of quilts in the book similar to the cover quilt. The rest are variations on traditional quilts--very nice but not my cup of tea. The dialogue on each quilt was interesting, but I'd suggest taking a peek at this book in person to be sure you want to order it for your collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fine history of evolving designs, colors and motifs
Comment: Wild By Design: Two Hundred Years Of Innovation And Artistry In American Quilts is an impressively informative exploration of American improvisational, asymmetrical quilting experiments provides a fine history of evolving designs, colors and motifs from the early 19th century to modern times. Of particular note here are insights on regional American and modern art quilts from local communities, as well as surveys of the collections and holdings of the International Quilt Study Center. A gorgeous analysis which includes a concurrent history of women and the textile arts in America, this is studded with color photos.
Rating: 5
Summary: Challenging some old ideas
Comment: I am a huge fan of Janet Berlo and bought this book primarily because of her involvement. I wasn't disappointed. Her essay, which precedes the catalogue of quilts and the dialogues with the other editors, is first class. It challenges a lot of the "myths" of quilting - for example, that women used re-cycled fabric for a lot of their quiltmaking. Berlo contends that, from her study of these quilts, and letters exchanged between quilters, there is evidence that most of the fabrics used were new, and some bought in considerable amounts specifically for quiltmaking. She also does a lot to discredit the myth of quilts being used as complicated signals on the Underground Railroad.
I have always tended to think of traditional quilts being beautiful but utlitiarian, and art quilts being beautiful but artistic. This book has opened my eyes to the fact that traditional quilts can be art quilts too.
I would recommend this book to anyone who really loves and appreciates quilts.
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Title: Quilt National 2003 : The Best of Contemporary Quilts by Lark ISBN: 157990503X Publisher: Lark Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Patchwork: Iowa Quilts and Quilters (Bur Oak Book) by Jacqueline Andre Schmeal ISBN: 0877458650 Publisher: University of Iowa Press Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Thinking Outside the Block: Step by Step to Dynamic Quilts by Sandi Cummings, Karen Flamme ISBN: 1571202382 Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts: Mysterious, Magical, Easy, and Fun by Ricky Tims ISBN: 157120217X Publisher: C & T Pub Pub. Date: November, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Amish Crib Quilts from the Midwest: The Sara Miller Collection by Janneken Smucker, Patricia Cox Crews, Linda Welters ISBN: 1561483893 Publisher: Good Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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