Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting

by Kathryn Berenson

Book Overview

Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development of broderie de Marseille needlework. During the seventeenth century these supple, all-white corded and quilted furnishings--from bedcovers to quilted bodices and caps--grew out of the thriving textile trade centered on France's Mediterranean port of Marseille as adaptations of popular foreign...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0981458246
• ISBN13: 9780981458243
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: International Quilt Museum
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.0"