With full-colour photographs of over 587 quilts, this title offers a visual and tactile understanding of American culture and society, bridging the transition from traditional folk culture to the age of mass production and consumption. It shows us some of America's treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place.

Photos, historical context, and descriptions of the American quilts created between 1870 and 1940, part of the International Quilt Study Center Collections