Jane Lury is a passionate quilt collector. She has travelled far and wide and acquired many fabulous quilts including early English and American chintz pieces, French Boutis and quilted Indian floor-spreads. This book has more than 200 wonderful photos, and its author tells delightful stories both of collecting adventures, and fascinating historical research into the sources of quilts, and the amazing materials, cotton, silk, wool, from which they were created. An outstanding book!
Contents
- The Complex Exist ence of “The Quilt”by David Hupert
- Introduction On Collecting
- First Prizes
- Serious beginnings
- Cotton and Silk: A Long and Spicey History
- Legacy of Asian Brilliance
- European and American Quilts: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Trees on Cotton
- Lots of Color and Cotton
- Stuffed and Corded: French Influences
- Early Nineteenth Century Quilts
- Velvets and Silks (Again)
- Odds and Ends (Almost)
- “She Sells Sea Shells”
PLUS 3 PATTERNS
Center Medallion Quilt
Quilt Tiny Triangles
Wool Quilt
Learn more about Jane Lury
Jane Lury has been in love with history and with textiles since she first learned to read; at about the same time her grandmother taught her to knit. She turned away from those passions to focus on earning a B.A. in Government from Smith College and a PhD in Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
She also spent alot of time with horses. In the 1970’s she acquired an old brownstone in New York and she happily became a busy psychotherapist in private practice.
Afterwards she fell in love with quilts (and with David Hupert). Jane is intensely interested in what matters to people, and curious about the other animals, vegetables and minerals that make up our planet. She loves to travel and “meanders” a great deal.
by Jane Lury
Format Description: full colour
Projects: 3
Pages: 320
