Massachusetts Quilts - Our Common Wealth

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	• Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth UPNE, 2009 - 360 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Domestic History

This charming book is coffee table sized and I wish that the plates were bigger. The quilts are surprising in their complexity and colors and I really like the stories of who made them and how they were used. Amazing the work that went into them. For all quilters. Especially those who like to know what came before. You don't need to know Massachusetts or New England to appreciate this book.

Beautiful book

This book is wonderfully done. The pictures are gorgeous, the narrative is well written. I own many quilt history books from the individual states and this is clearly one of the best. The inclusion of items that were quilted beside bedding were such a nice addition. I had never heard of quilted petticoats until I read my book. This is a must for anyone interested in quilt history. I also appreciated the way the book was divided on subjects. Well done and a pleasure to own.

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excellent history book

Massachusetts, being one of the more important states in America's cotton textile history, lends itself to meaningful research of its quilts made in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. 6000 quilts filled the research pool in this state documentation project. What resulted is this book of splendid historical and scholarly text accompanied by beautiful photography. This is a textile and quilt history book, not just a quilt book or coffee table book. The provenance accompanying the quilts is impressive with many added details that broaden the picture and give the reader historical context. This makes the book more worthwhile as a reference and genealogists might be interested in it. The quilts are accompanied by family photos when possible and the family history. Close-up pictures are scattered throughout, as well as photos of related items for making quilts.

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Massachusetts Quilts - Our Common Wealth

An outstanding work. In depth documentation, well written and excellent photography. Of value to anyone seriously interested in quilt history.

A must have for the quilt historian.

As a member of a quilt study group,this incredibly detailed book is a must have for its content and the quilts that are represented. I have a particular interest in signature quilts and was overwhelmed by the examples that are featured. This book is destined to be one of the greats. Buy it now while in print or, like Barbara Brackman's books that are out of print, the price will soon be beyond reach.

The Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project (MassQuilts) is a volunteer organization that holds "documentation days" across the state to identify, date, and photograph pre-1950 quilts in private and museum collections. Formally organized in 1994, to date 6,000 quilts have been documented (the original goal was 3,000). These quilts provide a window through which to view the history of the state, telling stories of international trade and domestic manufacture, economic booms and busts, national politics, and neighborly discourse. The project focuses on quilts that have a history of original use in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Quilts will present the group's findings. Essays by experts will lend context to catalogue-like entries on notable quilts. The quilts themselves will star, in over 200 illustrations, most of them rich in color.

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