Download or read book Old Patchwork Quilts and the Women who Made Them written by Ruth Ebright Finley and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My purpose in writing this book has been twofold: First, to make a record, with the hope that it might prove definitive, of one of the most picturesque of all American folk arts; secondly, to interpret that art in relation to the life of the times during which it most widely flourished. This purpose was itself prompted by the lately renewed interest in patchwork, both old and new--an interest enthusiastically active at the moment and rapidly growing. -- Foreword.