For Purpose and Pleasure: Quilting Together in Nineteenth-Century America by Sandi Fox

This book presents eighteen essays on nearly forty significant group-made quilts from the nineteenth century. In addition to their considerable aesthetic merit, the surfaces of these extraordinary quilts are rich with signatures and dates, with inscriptions and illustrations, and with the names of towns and villages across the United States. This is a fascinating study of American quilts as social documents.

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