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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 textile products.

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"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

Marseille

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    A Paperback / softback by Kathryn Berenson

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      Publisher International Quilt Study Center & Museum
      Published 1 November 2010
      ISBN-13 9780981458243
      978-0981458243
      ISBN-10 0981458246
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      Quiltmaking, patchwork and appliqué

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 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

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