Kuna Books
KUNA Auld, Rhoda L. Molas: What They Are, How to Make Them, Ideas They Suggest For Creative Applique.. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company: 1980 ISBN 0442200501 [Out of Print] Caraway, Caren. Mola Design Book. [no picture available] Click Here to Order Chaves E. and L. Angermuller. About Molas. Panama Canal Press: 1969 Helms, Mary. Cuna Molas […]
Native American Books
Books and Publications NATIVE AMERICAN Amsden, C. and Frederick Hodge Navaho Weaving – Its Technique and its History. [cover picture not available] Click Here to Order Caraway, Caren. Eastern Woodland Indian Designs. [cover picture not available] Click Here to Order Caraway, Caren. Native American Designs: Collected Edition [cover picture not available] Click Here to Order […]
South American Books
Books and Publications SOUTH AMERICAN Agosin, Marjorie. Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994. [Cover Picture Not Available] This book tells the story of women living in terror and poverty under General PinochetÂ’s dictatorship. To spread the story of their fruitless searches in jails, morgues, and government offices for their […]
Quilt of the Month
Ladybirds A Quilt By Barbara Barber "Ladybirds" was a quilt created by Barbara Barber in 2002 and has won several awards in addition to our Quilt of the Month program. Barbara uses a beautiful mix of greens and purple to attract the viewer’s eyes to the quilt as well as couched stitches to make the […]
Australia Books
Resources Books and Publications AUSTRALIAN / NEW ZEALAND Beasley, Harry. "Weaving Peg". Journal of the Polynesian Society vol.44, p.65. Notes on an ancient Turuturu. Best, Eldson. "The art of the Whare Poru : notes on the clothing of the ancient Maori, their knowledge of preparing, dyeing, and weaving various fibres, together with some account of […]
Chinese Books
Books and Publications CHINESE Appelbaum, Stanley (ed.). Traditional Chinese Designs. Click Here to Order DÂ’Addetta, Joseph. Treasury of Chinese Design Motifs. [no picture available] Click Here to Order Dye, Daniel Sheets. Chinese Lattice Designs. Click Here to Order Dye, Daniel. The New Book of Chinese Lattice Designs [no picture available] Click Here to Order Fok, […]
Hati Books
Books and Publications HAITI Cosentino, Donald. Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou. Click Here to Order Girouad, Tina. Sequin Artists of Haiti. Cecilia, LA: Girouard Art Projects: 1994. [Out-of-Print] Polk, Arthur. Haitian Voudou Flags. Click Here to Order
Hawaiian Books
Books and Publications HAWAII Brandon, Reiko Mochinaga. The Hawaiian Quilt. Features 52 Hawaiian quilts in full color, including 37 historic quilts from the collection of the Honolulu Academy of Art. Text in English and Japanese. Click Here to Order Cox J. w/ E. Stasack. Hawaiian Petroglyphs. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Special Publications.[no picture available] Click […]
Hmong Books
Books and Publications Hmong Bessac, Susan, ed. Embroidered Hmong Story Cloths (Contributions to Anthropology, No. 9). [cover picture not available] Click Here to Order Cappetta, Ann. "Chiang Xiong: Story Cloth". Art Education: v 42 #4 p35-36 Jul 1989 Caraway, Caren. Southeast Asian Textile Designs. [cover picture not available] Click Here to Order Chan, Anthony. Hmong […]
Japanese Books
Books and Publications JAPANESE Akizuki, Mariko. The Classic Quilting of Sashiko. ISBN 0870408542 [Out of Print] Clark, Mary Clare. Japanese Folded Patchwork: Techniques, Projects, and Designs of a Unique Asian Craft. 1997. From a Reader: "This book shows you how to take a tradional pattern , fold the material as you do with paper and […]