Shenandoah Valley Botanical Album Quilt, 1858
Author | : Virginia Quilt Museum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Album quilts |
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Author | : Virginia Quilt Museum |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Album quilts |
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Author | : Linda Baumgarten |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2014-10-28 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 0300207360 |
An exquisite and authoritative look at four centuries of quilts and quilting from around the world Quilts are among the most utilitarian of art objects, yet the best among them possess a formal beauty that rivals anything made on canvas. This landmark book, drawn from the world-renowned collection of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, highlights the splendor and craft of quilts with more than 300 superb color images and details. Fascinating essays by two noted scholars trace the evolution of quilting styles and trends as they relate to the social, political, and economic issues of their time. The collection includes quilts made by diverse religious and cultural groups over 400 years and across continents, from the Mediterranean, England, France, America, and Polynesia. The earliest quilts were made in India and the Mediterranean for export to the west and date to the late 16th century. Examples from 18th- to 20th-century America, many made by Amish and African-American quilters, reflect the multicultural nature of American society and include boldly colored and patterned worsteds and brilliant pieced and appliquéd works of art. Grand in scope and handsomely produced, Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection is sure to be one of the most useful and beloved references on quilts and quilting for years to come.
Author | : Jo Lauria |
Publisher | : Potter Style |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Decorative arts |
ISBN | : 0307346471 |
Illustrated with 200 stunning photographs and encompassing objects from furniture and ceramics to jewelry and metal, this definitive work from Jo Lauria and Steve Fenton showcases some of the greatest pieces of American crafts of the last two centuries. Potter Craft
Author | : Brenda Manges Papadakis |
Publisher | : Ez Quilting by Wrights |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Patchwork quilts |
ISBN | : 9781881588153 |
Author | : Kirk Varnedoe |
Publisher | : ABRAMS |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Richard Holmes |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 567 |
Release | : 2013-10-29 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0307908704 |
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Author | : Anna B. Leonard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Decoration and ornament |
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Author | : Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts & Printed Ephemera |
Publisher | : Winterthur Museum |
Total Pages | : 660 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : American diaries |
ISBN | : 9780912724614 |
This guide to the Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, named for Winterthur's first curator, provides descriptive information for the primary research material held in the collection. The Downs Collection acquires materials from the mid seventeenth century through the twentieth century that document American lifestyles, concentrating on the domestic scene and activities within the household and art. It includes such items as diaries, business accounts of craftsmen whose products decorated dwelling houses, family papers, tax records, construction of homes, artists' sketchbooks, wills and household inventories, children's toys and games, and scrapbooks and journals. Items from individuals famous in American history rest alongside materials from people who led routine lives yet still contributed to the development of America. An extensive microform collection, including copies of material owned by other public repositories and private individuals, supplements the manuscript holdings. Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Author | : Nicola Dill |
Publisher | : Nazraeli Press |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 9781590053119 |
This gorgeous, limited edition artist's book by Nicola Dill is a 48-page "installation" of the artist's elegant and meditative photographs of surf grasses. Unstaged and recorded in-camera, the photographs comprising this series are gestures in patience and time. The individual pieces leave the narrative aspect of photography behind, focusing on constantly changing structures and lines, preserving on film the temporary etchings created by the surf and sandy shores of the Pacific. Nicola Dill's photographs have been widely exhibited and published in the United States and in Germany. "Sea Etchings", her first monograph, is printed in an oversized format on matt Japanese art paper. This first printing is limited to 500 copies.
Author | : Oliver Lee Clifton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1002 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
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