Quilts: A Beautiful History

By Zaro Weil

Book Overview

The story of how the humble bed cover has become part of the popular American cultural identity is a fascinating one. The tradition arrived on American shores with the early British settlers and in a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840729732
• ISBN13: 9781840729733
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Spruce Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.0" x 1.3" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Best quilting history

Quilts: A Beautiful History by Zaro Weil is one of the best books I have read on quilt history. IT is well researched and nicely presented. I have reccommended it to the museum where I work as a must have. Quilt blocks have so many different names, there are no right or wrong names. I would have liked the print and the pictures to be bigger but perhaps the size of the book made it more affordable. There are so many quilt history books around that confuse quilt history with quilt traditions, folklore and myth and just not likely, that this book is refreshing and gives a nice survey of AMerican quilting history.

five stars for the quilts, three stars for the prose

this is a nice little book, a good choice for a gift to a quilter. the gallery contains photos of a nice array of quilts, some of which have been published elsewhere, others that have not. the small dimensions of the book make close ups of the quilting impossible, which is a great shame, especially for the amish quilts pictured. the prose is another matter. when it isn't turgid, it's purple. there are errors of history and block names. the author may love quilts, but she doesn't seem to know that much about them. if you don't know what to get a quilter, this, as i've said, would be nice. after all, most quilters are also bibliomaniacs, too, so any book is a good book. as a reference, it's nearly worthless.