Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804011389 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Photos are nice, writing is fair" according to Margaret Timmerman. This book tells the story of the Barn Quilt trail movement in a bunch of states. Much of it is fairly boring, and it could be a lot shorter and tell the story just as well. The writing is fair. The photos are quite nice, but the author frequently talks about barns/quilts for which there are no photos, which is frustrating. More photos and less text would make it more interesting--just photos in the order they are along the road, with a short story about each one, would be more effective.. "Not Very helpful if you want to see barns with quilts on them" according to lyn. Not what I was looking for - writing is oK but I would have liked to know where the barns where and info about the areas the barns where in. Writer tries to be all artsy and the plain truth is, that is not necessary in this type of book.. SUPER BOOK! txbluebonnet This is what I would consider a very thought-provoking and well-written book! Also a lovely tribute to the "founder" of Barn Quilts and the American quilt trails all over the country. It really grabbed my attention - so much so that I rushed out and bought a 36" x 36" piece of furniture-quality plywood, paints, sealers, and protective coatings - even before I had finished reading the book! This will be one of my Spring or Summer projects here in Central Texas! I later figured out that most of
Today, registered quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred driving trails.With more than fifty full-color photographs, Parron documents a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.. Groves's desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron travels through twenty-nine states and two Canadian provinces to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America's tourist and folk art map.Through dozens of interviews with barn artists, committee members, and barn owners Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares writ large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada
Parron and Groves have documented these trails with full-color photographs that show how imaginative many artists have become, incorporating butterflies, horses, flags, and other natural and man-made designs within the more abstract geometries of traditional barn quilts. --Mark Knoblauch . They also decorated their otherwise plain barns with hex signs serving as talismans or as purely exuberant decoration. Others quickly followed suit, and now many Midwestern and Eastern states have “quilt trails&rdqu