North Carolina Quilts

Roberson, Ruth Haislip (editor)

ISBN 10: 0807842346 / ISBN 13: 9780807842348

Published by The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London, 1988

About this Item

First edition first printing quarto paperback xviii + 214 pages Illustrated in colour and black and white Very Good condition. Previous owner's name on front end paper.

Seller Inventory # 082744

Bibliographic Details

• Title: North Carolina Quilts
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807842346
• ISBN 13: 9780807842348
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 900 grams

About this title

Synopsis

This magnificent volume features color photographs of more than 100 quilts crafted in North Carolina between the early nineteenth century and 1976. Included are chintz applique quilts, intricately pieced and appliqued quilts, crazy quilts, and examples of ingenious thrift in quilting with found and salvaged materials.

The quilts were chosen from more than 10,000 that owners brought to be recorded by the North Carolina Quilt Project during a series of statewide Quilt Documentation Days in 1985-86. Because the quilts are privately owned, many have never been seen publicly. The text presents the lives and times of the quiltmakers, accompanied by many vintage photographs from family collections. Whether these women made quilts to pass the time, warm their families, beautify their lives, or serve as symbols of love and togetherness, they used their fabric with uncommon artistry and craftsmanship.

About the Author

Ruth Haislip Roberson is director of the North Carolina Quilt Project, a quiltmaker, and quilt historian.