Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them (Esprios Classics)

Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 - August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since. She also ran the Practical Patchwork Company, a quilt pattern-making business from her home in Wabash, Indiana, for more than thirty years. Webster's appliquéd quilts influenced modern quilting designs of the early twentieth century. Her quilts have been featured in museums and gallery exhibition in the United States and Japan. The Indianapolis Museum of Art holds the largest collection of her quilts in the United States. Webster was inducted into the Quilters Hall of Fame in 1991.

Author: Marie D. Webster
Publisher: Blurb
Published: 12/21/2021
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d
ISBN13: 9781006962721
ISBN10: 1006962727
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- Crafts & Hobbies | General
- History | General
- Antiques & Collectibles | Books