Red & White: American Redwork Quilts & Patterns

About this book

Red & White: American Redwork Quilts and Patterns is the most comprehensive look at redwork available. Redwork a type of needlework popular during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is once again the hottest trend in the quilting world. In this two-volume heavily-illustrated work best-selling author Deborah Harding traces pattern sources and design inspirations for antique quilts with original catalog offers and period advertisements to help collectors identify date and document their own quilts. Blocks on twenty antique quilts are analyzed in detail. In the accompanying pattern book 100 actual-size patterns and detailed instructions enable readers to create their own redwork quilts and linens.