A Brief History of the Quilt (Deluxe).

Freeville, New York:: Lilliput Press,, 2022.. Edition of 5. 13 x 15 x 4" wooden cabinet with 8 x 10 x 2" book laid in. Shadow box on front of box containing sewing items - spools of thread, quilt sample, thimbles, bobbins with thread, pin cushion with pins and threaded needle, scissor, small glass jars of beads and buttons. Glass cover protects the items. Book with 11 small hand quilt samples as illustrations. Printed with an archival pigment printer on Mohawk superfine vellum. Archival rag mat board for quilt windows. Book bound in green book cloth with layered paper title on front board. Cloth pull for lifting book from box. Box with metal clasp closure. Signed and numbered by the artist. Carol Schwartzott: "'A Brief History of the Quilt' was first issued in 1996. The National Museum of Women held a yearly competition for women book artists. The chosen book was given a grant to create/print/bind in an edition of 125 copies - 100 to the Museum and 25 held back to the artist. My Quilt book was imagined to be a co-operative adventure, with actual quilt pages made by selected hand-quilters from America. Each of these 'quilt' would be editions in groups of 25 (these were small examples) with enough actual hand quilted examples distributed within the 125 copies. Each of the elected 25 women would each get one book in return for her contribution. These 25 were those designated to the artist. The book was a close win. The committee was not sure I could pull this off. A year or so later I produced the little boxed version of this Brief History, using paper examples rather than fabric." In the last two years Schwartzott has been re-examining past projects. A result of this process she created a new miniature "A Brief History of the Quilt" and this large deluxe version. In this deluxe version there are eleven quilt samples in cloth paired with definitions of quilting techniques.