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Manufacturer: American Quilter's Society
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Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.46097309045
EAN: 9781574328837
ISBN: 1574328832
Label: American Quilter's Society
Manufacturer: American Quilter's Society
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2005-07
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Studio: American Quilter's Society
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From poodle skirts of the 1950s to baby doll dresses of the 1990s, the fabrics of our everyday lives are featured in this handy reference guide to the materials of the last half century.A companion to Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 18001960, this source is ideal for those studying fashion and clothing trends from the late twentieth century, as well as collectors of recent quilts. Todays quilts may have elements of more than one decade because many quilters collect a great deal of fabric, and may draw from one group of fabric over a long period of time.The recent proliferation of reproduction fabrics has caused concern for the ability to differentiate the old from the new in reproduction quilts and repairs. An informative section on these fabrics from the 19802000 era provides a blueprint for building confident conclusions as to the fabrics origins.For ease in identification, prints are shown actual size and specific fabric lines and styles are grouped and sorted by date, then color. Dating divisions coincide with turning points in history which influenced attitudes and styles, and are highlighted by a brief history of each era.
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Summary: Dating Fabrics 2
Comment: This book is a must have for those who collect quilts or for the quilt historian. It would also be useful for making historical clothing and period home decorating. A wealth of information included.
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Summary: Dating Fabric
Comment: A very nice book for quilters or costume designers. Photos of the fabric were very clear.
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Summary: Fabric
Comment: A very good book for what it is meant to be. The overall design is classy. Beautiful in many ways.
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Summary: Dating Fabrics 1 and 2 (Trestain
Comment: These two books were purchased for donation to the local library in memory of deceased relatives of our local quilt guild. We were familiar with the books and felt the historical importance of the information would merit their addition to the library. They are spiral bound and beautifully illustrated. Persons trying to date and evaluate old quilts will find them very useful.
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Summary: A must have reference.....again
Comment: Eileen Jahnke Trestain has done it again--this book is the followup to her 1800-1960 book and together they are the definitive guidebooks on dating fabrics from the last 200 years. This book picks up where the first one left off, bringing us from 1950 to the present with an equally well researched information in an easy to use book.
Her explanations are sufficiently detailed and useful. However, what makes Trestain's books the most valuable references I have are the PICTURES. The fabrics shown are in full color and full sized to the original fabric. She chooses popular prints which are very representative of the time period they come from. I see very few fabrics which seem out of place or miscatagorized. This book also includes global representative fabric swatches in the more modern fabrics. I found this very appropriate considering the world market is smaller than ever in history with the advent of the internet a huge variety of fabric from all over the world is now available at our fingertips.
Using both of her books in combination makes a quilt historian's determinations easier when trying to differentiate between fabrics in a mixed-era quilt that range from 30-40 years old to 70-80 years old. This book also helps identify the repro-reproductions from the original-repros--a difficult task depending on the clues available from other fabrics in the quilt.
In addition to the great pictures, this book is fabulous because it lays open flat so you don't have to juggle with it to keep your place in the book while examining and comparing with your actual quilt or fabric. It has a very good resource list with web site addresses including quilt societies, appraisers and museums, a full glossary of trade terms and a very comprehensive bibliography.
I can't imagine how I got by without Trestain's books. They are the visual bibles of quilt/fabric dating and identification. It deserves more than 5 stars---it is a gorgeous, useful, well researched, very organized fabric dating reference manual which is presented in a logical, user-friendly format.
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