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Dating Fabric
Dating Fabric

A Color Guide 1800-1960

Dating Fabrics is informative, easy to use and should prove valuable whether you are a curious quilter, a fabric collector, quilt collector, or an accomplished historian. The samples represent fabrics made in the Americas from 1800 to 1960.

Dating Fabric 2
Dating Fabric 2

A Color Guide 1950-2000

Revisit an era when quiltmaking changed from private bed covers to public works of art in this reference book Dating Fabrics 2: A Color Guide 1950-2000. Eileen Trestain has put over 1000 colored fabric swatches from over the decades for your enjoyment.

 

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Dating Fabrics
A Color Guide 1800-1960

Author: Eileen Jahnke Trestain
Pages: 206
Page size: 9 1/4 x 7"
Publisher: American Quilting Society

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1830-1860 1930-1960

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This informative and easy to use handbook should prove valuable whether you are a curious quilter, a fabric collector, quilt collector, or an accomplished historian. Have you a quilt, block, or cloth scrap to identify? The thousands of fabric swatches presented in this guide book can help you determine a date of manufacture and something about the history of the piece. The samples represent fabrics made in the Americas from 1800 to 1960.

If you know an approximate date of a piece, you can turn to that section and compare the swatches to your fabric. A swatch may be included under the color it once was, the color it is now, or possibly both. All swatches are printed actual size so you can see the pattern scale. Unfamiliar terms are defined in a glossary and a substantial bibliography points the way to further reading and study.

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Introduction
5
Roaring '20s, 1910-1935
129
How To Use This Book
6
Depression Era And WWII, 1930-1960
160
A New Nation, Pre-1830
8
Resources
186
Westward, Ho!, 1830-1860
41
Glossary
193
First Centennial, 1860-1880
67
Bibliography
201
Turn Of The Century, 1880-1910
93
 

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Dating Fabrics 2
A Color Guide 1950-2000

Author:Eileen Jahnke Trestain
Pages: 207
Page size: 6 1/2" x 8 1/2"
Publisher: American Quilters Society
Cover: Hard
Item Code: 4HG0251
Weight: 1.3 lbs.
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purple color swatch

space color swatchgreen daisy color swatch

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Revisit an ear when quiltmaking changed from private bed covers to public works of art.

  • Over 1000 fabric swatches- From poodle skirts of the 1950s to baby doll dresses of the 1990s, the fabrics of everyday life are featured in this handy reference book
  • Reproduction fabrics guide- An informative section on the fabrics from the 1980-2000 era provides a blueprint for building confident conclusions as to the fabric's origins. The book's inner spiral binding makes the pages lie flat, and makes it easier to compare photos to fabrics
  • Quilting and clothing trends- This sequel is ideal for students of fashion and collectors of recent quilts, which often contain fabrics from more than one decade.
  • Accurate identification- prints are shown actual size, with fabric lines and styles grouped by date and color. Dating divisions are highlighted by an informative history of each era.

Table of Contents

Introduction5Anything Goes, 1990-2000197
How to Use This Book6Reproduction Fabrics 1980-2000197
Poodle Skirts and Atom Bombs, 1950-1963 8Glossary 203
For the Flower Children, 1964-1974 45Bibliography205
Bicentennial Revival, 1974-197965About the Author207
Material Girls and Guys, 1980-1989 96  

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100 Things You Need To Know If You Own A Quilt
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America's Printed Fabrics
1770-1890

by Barbara Brackman

Antique Quilts & Textiles

by Bobbie Aug and Gerald Roy

Calico Man
The Manny Kopp Collection

by Bobbie A. Aug & Sharon Newman

Dating Fabric

by Eileen Jahnke Trestain

Dating Fabric 2
by Eileen Jahnke Trestain

Protecting Your Quilts

by American Quilter's Society. Appraisal Certification Committee

Quilts, A Beautiful History
by Zaro Weil

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by Edie McGinniss

     

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