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Quilts 1700-2010 : hidden histories, untold stories / edited by Sue Prichard.

Contributor(s): Prichard, Sue
Publisher: London : Victoria & Albert Museum, 2010Description: 240 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781851775958; 9781851776085Subject(s): Quilts -- Great Britain -- History | Quilts -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: TT835 | .Q558 2010
Contents:
Sue Prichard -- Making and using quilts in eighteenth-century Britain / Clare Browne -- Patchwork on the page / John Styles -- The governor's daughter / Clair Smith -- Complexity and context: nineteenth-century British quilts / Linda Parry -- Sewing soldiers / Christopher Breward -- Remember me: Ann West's coverlet / Jenny Lister -- Creativity and confinement / Sue Prichard -- Maintaining the craft: British quilt-making 1900-45 / Dorothy Osler -- Beneath the layers: conserving the "Pomegranate coverlet" / Joanne Hackett -- The Chapman coverlet: texts, myths and mysteries / Angela McShane, Ann Christie, Abigail Turner -- Negotiating space: fabric and the feminine 1945-2010 / Sue Prichard -- Stitchers in time and space: women in the long eighteenth century / Joanne Bailey -- His constant Penelope: epic tales and domestic narratives / Jacqueline Riding -- Quilts 1970-2010: catalogue / Claire Smith.
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Book Book British Museum
Conservation and Scientific Research Conservation & Scientific Research TT835.Q558 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00005516
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Includes the catalogue of the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Introduction / Sue Prichard -- Making and using quilts in eighteenth-century Britain / Clare Browne -- Patchwork on the page / John Styles -- The governor's daughter / Clair Smith -- Complexity and context: nineteenth-century British quilts / Linda Parry -- Sewing soldiers / Christopher Breward -- Remember me: Ann West's coverlet / Jenny Lister -- Creativity and confinement / Sue Prichard -- Maintaining the craft: British quilt-making 1900-45 / Dorothy Osler -- Beneath the layers: conserving the "Pomegranate coverlet" / Joanne Hackett -- The Chapman coverlet: texts, myths and mysteries / Angela McShane, Ann Christie, Abigail Turner -- Negotiating space: fabric and the feminine 1945-2010 / Sue Prichard -- Stitchers in time and space: women in the long eighteenth century / Joanne Bailey -- His constant Penelope: epic tales and domestic narratives / Jacqueline Riding -- Quilts 1970-2010: catalogue / Claire Smith.