From Fiber to Fabric: The Essential Guide to Quiltmaking Textiles

by Harriet Hargrave

Harriet Hargrave presents the definitive resource guide to selection, use, and care of today's textiles. Includes easy-to-understand directions for testing fiber content, thread count, colorfastness, lightfastness, washfastness, and shrinkage. You'll find information on the effects of water and detergents on different fabrics and dyes. Thread compatibility and batting selection charts. Recommendations for storing quilts is also included. With a better understanding of how textiles are made, what to consider when buying them, and how to care for them once you bring them home, you will have much more enjoyment and less stress as you create your wonderful quilts. The printing quality in this copy may vary from the original offset printing edition and may look more saturated due to printing on demand by a high-quality printer on uncoated paper. The information presented in this version is the same as the most recent printed edition. Any pattern pullouts have been separated and presented as single pages.

Genres: Quilting, Nonfiction, Sewing, Reference

144 pages, Perfect Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

Reviews

[Joan Huehnerhoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

interesting

[SJB · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worth the read

Lots of good information and advice. Newbies and experienced quilters alike can benefit from this. I highly recommend it.
enjoy.

[Meg Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of info, although I would have liked even more details. Great, if you're into the backstory of cotton fabrics and the things you use with them (batting, thread).

I particularly liked the photos from inside various factories.

One suggestion: It would have been enlightening to have info about the waste and environmental impacts of cotton fabric production.