Art Quilts: Playing with a Full Deck

by Verna Suit and Sue Pierce

Book Overview

In thinking about collective design challenges for quilt artists, Sue Pierce came up with the idea of illustrating a deck of playing cards. She invited fifty-three other quilt artists to participate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087654300X
• ISBN13: 9780876543009
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 11.6"

Customer Reviews

CARDS AND QUILTS

Art quilting, a rather new form of expression in the art world, is vividly introduced in this generously illustrated and well written volume. By using the universally recognized theme of a deck of cards, the viewer's eye is more easily drawn to the quilt as a work of art rather than the familiar warm cover. Featuring designs by 54 different artists, the book begins with the traditional quilting method of stitching layers of fabrics together, and branches out into various interpretations and styles. Each featured artist is profiled and the easy to follow techniques will make all of us want to pick up fabric, needle, and thread. - Gail Cooke

The Best Quilt Show Ever

This book represents a museum show of all the cards in a full deck, each "card" an exquisit hand-crafted Art Quilt done by a master quilter from each U.S.state, plus two territories. If you want to be knocked out by genuis quilters, this is the book to get. The show was once at the Corchran Gallery in Washington DC.At one time the authors had a supply of decks of cards duplicating the quilts.