Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light tanning to page edges. Pattern is present in back and unused. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> If you’re interested in early fabrics and you enjoy hunting b through those veritable Aladdin’s Caves that are the linen fairs dealing in antiques and second-hand goods which flourish in the villages of Southern France with some luck you’ll maybe find as you rummage about one of these magnificent trapunto pieces. Long hidden in some Proven?al wardrobe they may still be discovered amongst the printed Indian cottons the silk or cotton quilted covers and those other treasures which are being rediscovered today an invaluable heritage bringing home to us the past of this beautiful province. What then is this French trapunto (known in France as le boutis) of which all lovers of the textile arts and those stirring marvels born under the skilled and patient hands of humble embroiderers of long ago dream of possessing an example? In his Franco-Proven?al dictionary the Tr?sor du F?librige which gathered together all the dialects in usage in Southern (LL)