Quilts The Fabric of War 1760-1900 Publisher / Soft Stir The new coffee table book

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who included artists as eminent as Paul Klee

Quilts The Fabric of War 1760-1900 Publisher / Soft Stir The new coffee table bookWhat extraordinary history these quilts tell us: from Mozart, at the age of eight playing the piano for George III, to a quilt copied from the altarpiece of Luthers church in Wittenberg, to the history of the release of Venice from Austria to become part of Italy. What binds all these patchworks together is they were made by a technique called intarsia (which is like marquetry in wood). They are made out of a broadcloth, a heavy woollen cloth always