Book Suggestions for Quilts and Textiles made between the 18th and 20th centuries

New Pathways into Quilt History written by Kimberly Wulfert, www.antiquequiltdating.com

Book Suggestions on:

18th - 20th Century Quilt and Textile History

18th Century

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Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns Organized by Motif, Style, Color, Layout, and Period by Susan Meller and Joost Elffers

	Quilts of Virginia, 1607-1899: The Birth of America Through the Eye of a Needle Virginia Consortium of Quilters, Paula C. Golden, Bunnie Jordan, Hazel Carter, Joan McGowan, Maren Lindberg

Bed Hangings: A Treatise on Fabrics and Styles in the Curtaining of Beds, 1650-1850 Abbott Lowell Cummings (Compiler), Nina Fletcher Little (Editor), Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Jane C. Nylander (Introduction)
	Textiles for Colonial Clothing - Sally A. Queen

Northern Comfort : New England's Early Quilts 1780-1850 Lynne Z. Bassett and Jack Larkin

All Sorts of Good Sufficient Cloth: Linen-Making in New England 1640-1860
by Merrimack Valley Textile Museum (now the American Textile History Museum)
Trade Goods: A Study of Indian Chintz by Alice Baldwin Beer
Smithsonian Institution Press; (June 1970)
World Textiles: A Concise History by Mary Schoeser

19th Century


Going West!: Quilts and Community
	Crazy Quilts: History - Techniques - Embroidery Motifs (Hardcover) by Cindy Brick (Author), Nancy Kirk (Foreword)
Quilts in a Material World: Selections from the Winterthur Collection Linda Eaton		Quilts in Red and Green and the Women Who Made Them Terry Clothier Thompson
Quilts of the Oregon Trail Mary Bywater Cross		The Quilt: A History and Celebration of an American Art Form Elise Schebler Roberts
Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History The latest State Documentation book.		Wisconsin Quilts: Stories in the Stitches Ellen Kort
Minnesota Quilts: Creating Connections with Our Past Gail Bakkom		Mississippi Quilts by Mary Elizabeth Johnson Huff
Amish Quilts of Lancaster County (formerly the Espirit collection) (19th - 20th C) by Patricia T. Herr		Amish Crib Quilts From The Midwest Janneken Smucker
The Amish Quilt Eve Granick		A Flowering of Quilts
Quilts of the Ohio Western Reserve (Ohio Quilt Series) Ricky Clark		On the Cutting Edge: Textile Collectors, Collections, and Traditions Jeannette Lasansky
Quilted Gardens: Floral Quilts of the Nineteenth Century Ricky Clark, 1994		The Baltimore Album Quilt Tradition Maryland Historical Society, Nancy E. Davis, 1999
Quilts, Coverlets, and Counterpanes Paula W. Locklair		Textiles for Regency Clothing: 1800-1850 by Lynne Zacek Bassett

Printed Textiles: English & American Cottons & Linens 1700-1850
Florence Montgomery, 1970; OOP
Calico & Chintz: Antique Quilts from the Collection of Patricia S. Smith Jeremy Adamson, 1997 OOP
Just New from te Mills: Printed Cottons in America
Diane L. Fagen Affleck, 1987 or 1997 Cocheco article.
Glorious American Quilts: The Quilt Collection of the Museum of American Folk Art by Sharon L. Eisenstat, Elizabeth V. Warren OOP

20th Century

	Quilts Through the Camera's Eye -Terry Clothier Thompson, 2007
	Vintage Feed Sacks: Fabric from the Farm Susan Miller		Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy Marcia Kaylakie $26.37
	Vintage Fabrics - Identification & Value Guide Judith Scoggin Gridley, Joan Reed Kiplinger, & Jessie Gridley McClure		Mary Schafer, American Quilt Maker by Gwen Marston
	Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking and the Great Depression� Merikay Waldvogel, 1990		Patchwork Souvenirs of the 1933 World's Fair Merikay Waldvogel, Barbara Brackman
	Quilts : Their Story and How to Make Them by Marie D. Webster paperback hardcover textbook binding		The Romance of the Patchwork Quilt in America Carrie A. Hall and Rose Kretsinger, 1935
	No Time on My Hands Grace Snyder		Red & White: American Redwork Quilts & Patterns (Volumes 1 & 2) by Deborah Harding

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