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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Before the colonial era in the western hemi sphere men were involved in quilts all the way through from weaving and dyeing to printing and designing the fabric. English businessmes drove the market by ordering palampores by the thou sands from India in the 17th century. Tailors in Eu- rope made quilted cotton bedcovers for the market to satisfy demand in England and France. But when quilting took hold in the American colonies it became a strictly female pursuit. There were always the odd few men who took it up and no doubt more husbands helped their wives than we will ever know but the DNA of American quilts was encoded as “female.” In the same way American quilts came to be defined as gifts a quality that also tended to ward off male involvement. (LL)