FS: Textiles: Needlework, Historic, Coverlets, Misc.
The Book Garden Gallery
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We would like to offer for your consideration:
[6044] --, --. PARIS FROCKS AT HOME. Butterick: 1930, 185 pages.
Bound in green cloth; heavily soiled boards, spine darkened. Contents
clean, binding sound. Illustrated with numerous instructional
drawings. Suiting patterns to proportions; pressing; tubbing Paris
smocks at home; various stitches. Good $16
[6036] --, --. IMPORTANT FRENCH AND FLEMISH TAPESTRIES. (Auction
Catalog) "From the Collection of V. & L. Benguiat. American Art Asocc:
1929, 40 pages. Wrappers. Illustrated. "An Important Set of Four
Aubusson Pastorales, Two Splendid Delft Renaissance Examples, A Fine
XVII Century Italian Tapestry, Louis XVI Aubusson & Lille Panels,
Flemish Late XVI Century and Brussels Silk-Woven Tapestries," etc.
Good $20
[6037] --, --. IMPORTANT TAPESTRIES: RUGS, FURNITURE, SILVER OBJECTS
OF ART. (Auction catalog) American Art Assoc: 1935, 73 pages. Bound in
blue wrappers, cocked. Numerous photos. Oriental rugs; including an
early Oushak Medallion Carpet. Brussels and Flemish Renaissance
Tapestries,. Queen Anne and Georgian silver, antique jeweled watches,
more. Good $16
[6035] --, --. AMERICAN HAND-WOVEN COVERLETS IN THE NEWARK MUSEUM.
Newark, New Jersey, 1947, 83 pages. Wrappers with small name inked to
front, some soil to plain rear. . Illustrated with black and white
plates of textile examples. Coverlet colors; loom rooms and loom
houses; overshot weave; numerous patterns. Coverlets, folk culture,
hand weaving. Good $45
[6045] Avram, Mois H. THE RAYON INDUSTRY. D. Van Nostrand: 1927, 622
pages. Bound in dark blue cloth with very crisp gilt lettering. 1st
edition. Numerous photo illustrations and b&w drawings, diagrams and
tables. Historical; financial; production; patents, viscose process,
cupra-amonium. Edges of quite-clean boards and extremities with some
bumping, owner's name neatly inked to ffep; otherwise Very Good $60
[6034] Burnham, Harold B. 'KEEP ME WARM ONE NIGHT.' "Early
Handweaving in Eastern Canada." Co-authored, Dorothy K. Burnham. Univ.
of Toronto: 1972, 387 pp. Quarto. Dust jacket with thin vertical slit
down the middle, from top to bottom, light perimeter chips, otherwise
in good condition, presentable, in clear mylar wrapper. Cloth bound;
exterior very clean. Light soil to top, bottom, fore-edges. Clean rear
card pocket holder, one small date stamp to rear paste-down, but no
other indications of appearing as x-libris. Illustrated with more than
500 photos, drawings, some color plates. Ontario, Quebec handweaving
as practiced up until 1900; carpets, blankets, linens, large selection
of coverlets; weaves, tools, techniques. Culminating in 25 years of
study by the Textile Department of the Royal Ontario Museum. Origins
of traditional techniques carried to North America from Great Britain
and Europe. Very Good $110
[6043] Carter, Katie B. PIONEER MEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers: 1946, 76 pages. Wrappers. Illustrated with
many historical photos. Light crease lines to plain covers. A few
pages with smudges. Brief essays on contemporary styles, 1840 - 1870,
infants and children wear, shawls, military dress. Scarce. Good $30
[6049] Chicago, Judy. THE DINNER PARTY NEEDLEWORK. "Embroidery Our
Heritage." Co-authored with Susan Hill. Large softbound with rubbing
to binding, light wear along all edges. Anchor: 1980, 287 pages. 1st
edition, thus. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white
photos, etc. Needlework; exhibitions, art. Good $30
[6048] Csernyanszky, Maria. THE ART OF LACE-MAKING IN HUNGARY.
Corvina Press: Hungary, 1962, 85 pp. Dust jacket very good, in
protective mylar wrapper. Cloth spine, boards. Square 12mo Many photo
examples. Hungarian textiles, lace-making history. Special
characteristics, artistic aspects; historical development; influence
of national costumes upon, misc. Uncommon. Very Good $30
[6028] Gaddis (Editor), William. A PILE FABRIC PRIMER:
CORDUROY/VELVETEEN/VELVET. Crompton-Richmond: 1970, 56 pages. Quarto.
Dust jacket with light scratches to rear else very good, in protective
mylar wrapper. Bound in black and brown cloth. One ding to top edge of
rear board. A wonderful book illustrated with color illustrations,
photos, detailed diagrams, historical prints and with many actual
swatch samples of fabrics discussed in this book. Near Fine $65
[6027] Gehret, Ellen J. THIS IS THE WAY I PASS MY TIME. "A Book
About Pennsylvania German Decorated Hand Towels." Pennsylvania German
Society: 1985, 292 pages. Quarto. Bound in beige cloth. Pictorial
endpapers. Indexed, bibliography. Copiously illustrated with b&w
photos, some color photos depicting numerous examples. Front board
with mild bow and somewhat tender; a crack between the frontispiece
and facing title page requires this book to be held somewhat gingerly.
Otherwise clean and bright with no former ownership markings. Dust
jacket very good, in protective mylar wrapper. Over 600 photos,
needlework history covering the peak popularity of this form between
1820 to 1850. Pennsylvania German, folk lore, needlework. Good $45
[6040] Gingerich, Melvin. MENNONITE ATTIRE THROUGH FOUR CENTURIES.
Pennsylvania German Society: 1970, 192 pages, indexed. Bound in
attractive decorative cloth, slightly skewed. Numerous photos;
historical, contemporary, color illustrations, drawings. Women's
Dresses, Headdress and Footwear; Men's Coats, Vests, Trousers, etc.
Clothing as affected by history; South American costumes; Palatinate
costumes, more. Very Good $65
[6030] Gregorian, Arthur T. ORIENTAL RUGS AND THE STORIES THEY TELL.
Taylor Press: Boston, 1964. Second edition. 127 pages and index,
bibliography. Bound in cloth. Map endpapers. Dust jacket good, in
protective mylar wrapper. Numerous photo examples. The culture and
civilizations of the people who express themselves through
rug-weaving. This revised edition includes more detailed descriptions
of various rugs along with an adjacent photo. The author is noted as
answering hundreds of typical questions people have about these
textiles in this book. A clean, well-preserved copy. Very Good $22
[6050] Jannsen, Barbara Suit. TECHNOLOGY IN MINATURE. "American
Textile Patent Models, 1819 - 1840." Smithsonian: 1988, 147 pp.
Softbound. Some chipping, small abrasions to spine. Color pictorial
binding. Chronological list of textile patent models; photos, early
patent documents. About thirty patents profiled in detail with
wonderful photos. Good $35
[6031] Knott, Grace L. ENGLISH SMOCKING. Thomas Allen: Toronto:
1957, 110 pages. Bound in gray cloth. Color plates, diagrams,
drawings. History of in England, design and color suggestions,
patterns, various stitches, Honeycomb smocking. A very clean and sound
copy. Very Good $25
[6026] Krueger, Glee. A GALLERY OF AMERICAN SAMPLERS. "The Theodore
H. Kapnek Collection." Bonanza: 1984 edition. 96 pages. Dust jacket
near fine, with no chips or tears, price is not clipped, in protective
mylar wrapper. Quarto. Bound in red boards with gilt spine lettering.
Over 100 illustrated examples dating between 1678 to 1865, the
majority in color. [A] "broad chronological and geographical range of
Americana as worked by schoolgirls over a span of two hundred years.
With special attention to the types of schools where this work was
taught, the materials and stitches used, and the source of the
designs." Samplers, textiles, Americana. Fine $85
[6051] Lantz, Sherlee. A PAGEANT OF PATTERN FOR NEEDLEPOINT CANVAS.
Diagrams by Maggie Lane. Grosset & Dunlap: 1973, 509 pages. Dust
jacket good, presentable, in protective mylar wrapper. Quarto. Bound
in beige cloth with stamped copper spine lettering. Copiously
illustrated in color and b&w. "Centuries of Design, Textures, Stitches
and a New Exploration." Bookplate remnant to front paste-down, small
corner crease to front fly else an excellent copy. Near Fine $85
[6033] Lester, Katherine Morris. HISTORIC COSTUME. Co-authored with
Rose N. Kerr. Bennett: 1967 edition. 287 pages. Bound in color
pictorial boards; quite clean, spine with faint lean. X-libris
evidenced only by rubber stamp to ffep, very minor label remnant to
spine. Color and black and white plates, photos, detailed drawings. An
overview of historic costumes from ancient times to 1966, America.
Egyptian, Roman, Middle Ages, Asiatic, American, etc. Good $16
[6042] Little, Frances. EARLY AMERICAN TEXTILES. Appleton Century:
1931, 267 pages. Stated 1st printing. Green cloth; spine cocked, small
darkened area near spine's heel, gilt lettering faded. Endpapers
browned from age else clean. Illustrated with b&w plates of many
fascinating examples. South in 17th Century; Early New England;
American Silk; Spinning & Weaving; Embroidery, Early Cotton-Printing;
Textiles Used in Early American Houses, more. Good $55
[6041] Morris, Barbara. VICTORIAN EMBROIDERY. Nelson: 1962, 238
pages. Dust jacket fair to good, in protective mylar wrapper. Bound in
blue cloth with gilt lettering. Owner's name to ffep. Indexed,
numerous b&w plates, drawings. A clean sound book. White work; church
embroidery; art needlework; "Morris" embroideries; patchwork and
applique; Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society; Glasgow School. Misc.,
appendices. Very Good $35
[6029] Pfannschmidt, Ernst-Erik. TWENTIETH-CENTURY LACE. Scribner's
Sons: 1975, 216 pp. 1st edition. Cloth bound with gilt spine
lettering; one corner gently bumped. Very light signs of age to
otherwise clean and ownership-free endpapers. Dust jacket very good,
in protective mylar wrapper. Profusely illustrated with photos, some
color examples. Concise essays on lace making from around the world,
threads, bobbin, Tulle, needlemade lace, classification, etc. followed
by a lengthy pictorial survey. Very Good $25
[6046] Phillips, Anna M. Laise HOOKED RUGS AND HOW TO MAKE THEM.
Macmillan: 1925, 154 pp. 12mo 1st edition. Decorated tan cloth;
heavily soiled. Owner's name in pencil to ffep. Occ. Smudge, signs of
age to text. Photos. Hooked rugs; symbols and sentiments;
preservation, mending; hooked rugs for city and country homes and
various rooms. Spine slightly leaned. A sound reading copy. Uncommon.
Fair $45
[6032] Smith, Willard M. GLOVES, PAST AND PRESENT. I mperial
Engraving & Printing: 1918, 119 pages. Bound in dark green cloth with
gilt lettering; light rubbing, tight wrinkle to cloth of rear board.
Endpapers clean and free of former ownership markings. The "why's" of
gloves; ancient history; language of; gloves in the 18th century;
glove-makers; Annonay; from artist to artisan. This book does not have
illustrations. Uncommon. Very Good $30
[6047] Waugh, Elizabeth. COLLECTING HOOKED RUGS. Co-authored with
Edith Foley. Century: 1927, 140 pages, indexed. Color frontispiece,
numerous black and white plates. Bound in cloth with heavy spine soil,
moderate soil to front board. Old owner's name inked to front fly.
Materials and dyes in antique hooked rugs; preservation and
restoration; decorative importance; technique; collector's experience.
Above flaws noted; this copy is otherwise Good $30
[6038] Wilson, Lillian M. THE CLOTHING OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS. John
Hopkins Press: 1938, 178 pages, indexed. Bound in brown cloth with
stains to front, wear to book's extremities. Old x-libris evidenced by
attractive library bookplate, plain card holder. Inked notations to
ffep. Book's binding is opening half-way between title page and color
frontispiece, making front cover tender. Pages otherwise sound and
binding. Numerous photos, reconstruction of garments, early tools,
primitive looms, jewelry. Spinning, weaving, fulling, sewing; tunics
and togas. Cloaks, costumes, clothing for women and children.
Uncommon. Fair $65
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