Just arrived, in advance of the V&A's Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition, the accompanying book subtitled Hidden Histories, Untold Stories
More on this as I read it, but if you click the picture to enlarge it you'll see at top right a map of England, a detail from a bedcover dated 1797, and bottom right an unfinished coverlet of silks from 1860-70 which cleverly fools the eye and has inspired many a contemporary pattern.
Back to the V&A website, and there's a lot to see on the associated pages including the design a textile feature, and you can visit the blog of exhibition curator Sue Prichard.
When you are down in London later this year, you can get a fast train to Bath to see this exhibition.
Posted by: Dark Puss | 05 March 2010 at 07:37 AM
Read an article in last weeks Saturday Telegraph colour magazine about the exhibition, and then saw the book had appeared on your side bar. It looks a feast, both book and the exhibition.
Posted by: Fran | 05 March 2010 at 08:38 AM
Wonderful. I'd have missed the map of England if you hadn't pointed it out!
Posted by: Karen | 05 March 2010 at 03:25 PM
Wow. Just wow.
Posted by: LoriAngela | 07 March 2010 at 04:31 AM