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Enlarge Barker, Alfred F. and E. Priestly. Wool Carding and Combing with Notes on Sheep Breeding and Wood Growing.
Cassell & Company, Ltd., London. 1912 264 pp, 100 b/w ill. including 3 fold outs: Distrobution of the World's Flocks; Mendelian Methods of Breeding; Worsted Carder, scattered uniform foxing, prior owner name and bookplate,rust colored cloth covers (hardcover), some wear at extremities, else vg. Interesting look at 1912 wool industry. $40.00 [14136] Order

Enlarge Bishop, Robert. Quilts, Coverlets, Rugs & Samplers.
Alfred A. Knopf, NY. 1982 (479) pp, 357 color ill. Very good softcover. Knopf Collectors' Guides to American Antiques. $15.00 [14247] Order

Enlarge Clark, Ricky. Quilts and Carousels: Folk Art in the Firelands.
Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH. 1983 52 pp, 31 b/w and color ill. softcover, exhibition catalog. $20.00 [14415] Order

Enlarge Davidson, Mary M. Plimoth Colony Samplers.
The Channings, Marion, MA. 1974 58 pp, b/w ill. and line drawings. Very good softcover. $75.00 [17365] Order

Enlarge Davison, Mildred and Christa C. Mayer-Thurman. Coverlets: A Handbook on the Collection of Woven Coverlets in The Art Institute of Chicago.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 1973 228 pp, 154 b/w ill. List of weavers, bibliography. Very good, spine lightly sunned and worn, softcover. $45.00 [12940] Order

Enlarge Eldredge, Charles C. (Introduction). Quilter's Choice: Quilts from the Museum Collection.
Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS. 1978 79 pp, b/w and color ill. throughout. Very good softbound museum exhibition catalog. $30.00 [11482] Order

Enlarge Gerson, Herrmann. Toile de Jouy: Ausstellung von Antiken, Bedruckten Stoffen Originale aud den Manufakturen von Jouy, Nantes, Melun und Anderen.
32 pp, 7 b/w ill. Die Zusammenstellung und Auswahl der ausschlieblich in Privatbesitz befimdlichen Stoffe hat in liebenwurdigster Weise: M. Henri Clouzot, Konservator des Museums Galliera, Paris, ubernommen, der auch aus seiner eigenen bedeutenden Sammlung die interessantesten Stucke beigesteuert hat. Wir sprechen ihm auch an dieser Stelle unseren aufrichtigsten Dank aus. Red floral toile covers have some wear and soil, endpapers and t.p. brittle and detached, text and plates generally very good. German text. $35.00 [13868] Order

Enlarge Gruber, Alain. [Textiles] Grotesken: Ein Ornamentistil in Textilien.
Abegg-Stiftung, Bern. 1985 121 pp, 37 ill., 14 color, bibliography, glossary. French and German text. Softcover exhibition catalog. " . . . des 16. - 19. Jahrhunderts ; Grotesques: Un style ornemental dans les arts textiles du XVI-XIX siecle" Very Good $30.00 [14806] Order

Enlarge Hagerman, Betty J. and Helen M. Ericson. Kansas Quilt Symposium, 1978.
Kaw Valley Quilters Guild, Inc., Baldwin City, KS. 1978 80 pp, b/w and color ill. throughout of many varieties of quilts, the speakers at the exhibition and exhibition displays. Very good softcover exhibition catalog. $25.00 [11484] Order

Enlarge Halls, Zillah. Women's Costumes 1750 - 1800.
HMSO, London. 1972 71 pp, 24 b/w plates plus ill. in text, 207 catalogue entries, bibliography. Very good softcover, a little toning to beige rear cover, else vg. $25.00 [15601] Order

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