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Informationen zum Autor Sue C. Cummings is a quilt collector and researcher whose specialty is Ohio textiles. Klappentext From 1888 to 1918 a community of miami valley neighbors and relatives made album presentation quilts to celebrate life passages. "Album Quilts of Ohio's Miami Valley" presents more than two dozen never-before-published color photographs of these folk art album quilts. Quilt historians, as well as genealogy and history buffs, will value the book as an inspired "how-to" guide for its impeccable research and for author Sue C. Cummings's ingenious tracking down of the clues in the sometimes hidden messages in the quilting. Beautifully illustrated and affordably priced in a paperback edition, this book is a valuable addition to the Ohio Quilt Series and will appeal to quilt researchers across the country who may discover a quilt from the Miami Valley of Ohio far from its place of origin. Zusammenfassung From 1888 to 1918, a community of Miami Valley neighbors and relatives made album presentation quilts to celebrate life passages. Their sharing of designs and construction techniques led to the development of a distinctive regional quilt style that has never been duplicated in any other region of the state or country.
