Online historic fabric database
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Online historic fabric database
I'm wondering if anyone knows of one? Or a book? I was thinking it would be a nice resource for dating old quilts. I have started collecting pictures of old quilts, specifically closeups of the fabrics. I was thinking that if there was one of these, and they got enough pictures of fabrics from dated quilts, the fabrics could be used to date unsigned quilts.
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Barbara Brackman and Eileen Trestain have books on dating fabrics. Search for them on Amazon. In addition, this site has some information:http://www.quiltindex.org/wiki/index...ing_References
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Give this site a look-see. Maybe it will help. I know it’s not fabric, per se, but you can search quilts by style, collection, time period, pattern or state. Maybe you’ll see comparable fabric in some of the quilts....
http://www.quiltindex.org/index.php
http://www.quiltindex.org/index.php
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