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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960by: Eileen Trestain  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.47 You Save: $8.48 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Spiral-boundDewey Decimal Number: 746.460973 EAN: 9780891458845 ISBN: 0891458840 Label: American Quilter's Society Manufacturer: American Quilter's Society Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 206 Publication Date: August 15, 1998 Publisher: American Quilter's Society Studio: American Quilter's Society Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Are you a fabric collector, quilt collector, appraiser, or antiques collector who needs to know specifics about fabrics or quilts? Then this book is for you! It will help you identify, date, and recognize antique fabrics and their uses in quilts and clothing. Over 1,000 color fabric swatches are listed in this handy, easy-to-use reference guide. You'll be able to identify fabric dating from the pre-1830 era through the Second World War. Match your antique fabric by selecting a suspected time period and comparing colors and prints. REVIEW: There are many books out with beautiful color prints of quilts from various eras but until now we couldn't examine an extensive collection of fabrics. Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960 offers this opportunity by organizing hundreds of fabric swatches by period. For each period, Eileen Trestain gives us fascinating information about how textiles were made, dyes were used and prints created in the making of fabrics during that time period. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - hmm....This book is going to take some studying for me to really "get it". Fabrics from eras before 1900 all tend to look similar to me because of the different dyes that were used then, compared to later. The prints look the same to me. I was hoping to get more of a sense of each distinct era but while studying this book could give me that, it seems to be more of a resource for looking up fabrics one finds on old quilts. And it couldn't possibly be complete enough for that. I haven't spent a lot of time ... Read More Rating:  - A Must Have Book for Antique Quilt CollectorsWhen paging through this colorful book, Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960, imagine my tremendous joy when I found THE yellow flowered fabric featured in my most prized quilt, dating it between 1830-1860! This very well researched and comprehensive collection introduces each time period from "Pre-1830 'A New Nation' with a thorough introduction of the era and the history of quilts and fabrics. Following are 1-inch x 1-inch photo swatches of the fabrics arranged by print style and ... Read More Rating: - Photographs of historyThis book is a great addition to my historical fabrics/quilt collection. I really appreciate the hardback cover and the spiral binding!! It has excellent photographs. Rating:  - Great InformationThis is a great book and took a lot of time and research to put together, although it did not help me. It seemed to have more northern than southern information. Rating: - Quilt DatingExcellent. It's a keeper and is now on my reference shelf. It was hard reading but the best book by far with the pictures and text for dating my fabrics. It really helped in dating my quilts. 
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