North Carolina Quilts

North Carolina Quilts by Ellen Fickling Eanes. Published by University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC, 1988. 1st Edition1st Printing. Hardbound, Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Fine in Good- DJ. 214 Pgs. ISBN 0807818119. LCCN 88-10598. This book features color photographs of more than 100 quilts crafted in North Carolina between the early nineteenth century and 1976. The quilts were chosen from more than 10,000 that owners brought to be recorded by the North Carolina Quilt Project during a statewide series of Quilt Documentation Days in 1985-86. The text presents the lives and times of the quiltmakers, accompanied by many vintage photographs from family collections. The authors, Ellen Fickling Eanes, Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick, Sue Barker McCarter, Joyce Jones Newman, Ruth Haislip Roberson, and Kathlyn Fender Sullivan, are all quiltmakers and quilt historians. Editor Ruth Haislip Roberson is director of the North Carolina Quilt Project. Foreword by George Holt, Director of Folklife Programs, North Carolina Arts Council. Color photographs by Mark Weinkle & Greg Plachta. Description text copyright 2007 www.BooksForComfort.net. Item ID 14353.