{"product_id":"marseille-9780981458243","title":"Marseille","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces the origins and the commercial development of \u003cem\u003ebroderie de Marseille\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eTextile Society of America Newsletter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kathryn is indisputably a specialist or even THE specialist of 'Marseille embroidery'. . . . An essential book with magnificent photos!\"—\u003ci\u003eQuiltmania\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"International Quilt Study Center \u0026 Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406589010263,"sku":"9780981458243","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marseille-9780981458243","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}