Patchwork (The Scribner Needlecrafts Library)

Averil Colby is the world's foremost authority on the technique, design, and history of patchwork. here is her definitive work on the craft, designed to help needleworkers create their own patchwork patterns. Included are full instructions on materials, tools and equipment, templates, color and design, lining and finishing, applied work, and the various patchwork shapes. Craft enthusiasts will also enjoy reading about the history of this traditional form of needlework and will be delighted by the photgraphs of past examples--some of the work dating from the early seventeenth century.

200 pages, 66 black-and-whte photographs, 249 drawings.