Oldie but a Goodie
Apr 30th, 2007 by Jenny Stratton
Dating Fabrics – A Color Guide: 1800-1960
 AQS884-0 Retails $24.95
Are you a fabric collector, quilt collector, appraiser, or antiques collector who needs to know specifics about fabrics or quilts? Or just have a love of reproduction fabrics? Then this book is for you! It will help you identify, date, and recognize antique fabrics and their uses in quilts and clothing. Over 1,000 color fabric swatches are listed in this handy, easy-to-use reference guide. You’ll be able to identify fabric dating from the pre-1830 era through the Second World War. Match your antique fabric by selecting a suspected time period and comparing colors and prints.
“There are many books out with beautiful color prints of quilts from various eras but until now we couldn’t examine an extensive collection of fabrics. Dating Fabrics: A Color Guide 1800-1960 offers this opportunity by organizing hundreds of fabric swatches by period. For each period, Eileen Trestain gives us fascinating information about how textiles were made, dyes were used and prints created in the making of fabrics during that time period.”-Anne Johnson, 2001
 The first printing of this book was in 1998, but it is a great reference guide, especially with all the reproduction quilt fabrics that are on the market today. Make sure you have this in your quilting library.
