Description
Book SynopsisTraces 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 textile products.
Trade Review"Kathryn Berenson has written a book that combines the quilt's medieval literary roots, commercial history, technique, and development in a manner that is as informative as it is engaging. Once I began, I couldn't put it down."—Suzanne Smith Arney,
Textile Society of America Newsletter"Kathryn is indisputably a specialist or even THE specialist of 'Marseille embroidery'. . . . An essential book with magnificent photos!"—
Quiltmania
