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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Unused patterns in back. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This is my second book about fabric and its influence on the look of American quilts. This time the focus is on the twentieth century. Twentieth-century-quilt style actually began in the 1890s with significant changes in dye technology. The story ends in 1970 with the recent revival of interest in quilting on the horizon. The end of the twentieth century is an era I’m leaving to future historians with a more distant perspective. We will examine quilt style in the context of the times. Quilts result from available fabric-and fabric develops from technology and trade. In the twentieth century as limits on technology and trade decreased taste became increasingly important Fashion’s pace sped up and quilts changed with the tempo of the times. Born a few months ahead of the post-World War II baby boom I remember many of the styles. My family didn’t make quilts but as New Yorkers they loved fashion. My mother and her nine McNally sisters seemed to me to be the essence of chic in their floral (LL)