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Dating Fabrics - A Color Guide: 1800-1960 |  | Author: Eileen Trestain
Publisher: American Quilter's Society
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 375596
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover-spiral
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 0891458840
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.460973
EAN: 9780891458845
ASIN: 0891458840
Publication Date: August 15, 1998
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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.
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 Great resource for quilt historians February 12, 2010
Sioux
An excellent resource for those interested in collecting old quilts or tops or if you are looking for more info on an old family heirloom. Don't expect to find an exact match of the fabrics you have, you might, but a general feel for the colors and patterns of the era. The book is arranged by time period and also by colors and is compiled by a quilt appraiser with an impressive array of experiences in the quilt world. There is an excellent glossary, list of resources and bibliography in the back of the book. It is spiral bound with a sturdy wipeable cover, like a cookbook, which lays flat making it handy for reference work. There is also a sequel, for those interested in more modern fabrics. Publish by the American Quilter's Society of Paducah, Kentucky.
 informative November 12, 2009
J. Ramsey (OK)
I like the way the author divided the decade by color to help identify the date of manufacture.
Dating Fabrics is Much Easier With This Great Book! February 9, 2009
BlackRain4 (Corpus Christi, Tx.)
I am really impressed by this book! I'm learning alot about antique fabrics and how to identify them! I am enjoying finding some of the fabrics from my quilt in this book! :O)
Helpful guide January 28, 2009
A. Pass
Even if you don't find an exact fabric match, the abundance of photos give a good idea of the colors and types of patterns predominant in different periods. Informative accompanying text also.
 hmm.... June 5, 2008
L. McLaughlin (SAN DIEGO, CA USA)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
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 with the book yet but this is my impression at this point. Nothing else like it for sale though!
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