From Fiber to Fabric: The Essential Guide to Quiltmaking Textiles
Hargrave, Harriet
ISBN 10: 1571200258 ISBN 13: 9781571200259
Published by C&T Publishing, 1997
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Harriet Hargrave presents the definitive resource guide to selection, use, and care of today’s textiles. Includes easy-to-understand directions for testing fiber content, thread count, colorfastness, lightfastness, washfastness, and shrinkage. You’ll find information on the effects of water and detergents on different fabrics and dyes. Thread compatibility and batting selection charts. Recommendations for storing quilts is also included.
With a better understanding of how textiles are made, what to consider when buying them, and how to care for them once you bring them home, you will have much more enjoyment and less stress as you create your wonderful quilts.
About the Author: Harriet Hargrave is a world-renowned quilter, teacher, and best-selling author. She is responsible for myriad products pertaining to machine quilting, from batting to fabric. In 1981, she opened the hugely successful quilt shop, Harriet’s Treadle Arts, in Denver, Colorado. harriethargrave.com
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Title: From Fiber to Fabric: The Essential Guide to...
Publisher: C&T Publishing
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good