Limited Edition companion book!
Hearts & Hands:
Women, Quilts and American Society
"(It's) as beautiful as the best art book and as fascinating as the best historical novel. It shows us how women, both black and white, created a great American art form from the fabric of their lives." - Gloria Steinem |
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Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press 1996 SIGNED by Julie Silber and Pat Ferrero
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Hearts and Hands:
Women, Quilts, and American Society
Elaine Hedges, Pat Ferrero, and Julie Silber
19th Century American life, as it was experienced and recorded by women, comes alive in these photograph-laden pages.
Universally praised and recommended by quilt experts and scholars, this soft cover edition, printed by Rutledge Hill Press in 1996, is a must for every quilt lover's library.
Illustrated throughout with full color photos of incomparable antique quilts, and with black and white historical images.
Essay by Elaine Hedges (1927 - 1997) a pioneering scholar of American Literature
and Women's Studies
" A magnificently designed book..." SF Chronicle
"Highly recommended." Library Journal
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