I kept a running list of the books I read in 2006 and arranged them in approximate categories, beginning with Arts and Crafts. Some of these books are old friends I had occasion to visit during the year, either for reference or just because I find them so valuable and/or useful that they are worth re-reading.
M.C.Richards: Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person (Out of print and apparently unavailable.) Published in 1962. Re-reading this is pure 1960s nostalgia and yet, and yet... how much of what she says is still true, particularly about the true meaning of education.)
Jonathan Holstein: The Pieced Quilt. An American Design Tradition First published in 1973. Absolutely seminal work for anyone onterested in the history of the patchwork quilt in America.
Bets Ramsey,Merikay Waldvogel: Southern Quilts. Quilts of the Civil War
Faun Valentine: West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers
Carla Needleman: The Work of Craft
Suzi Gablik: The Re-Enchantment of Art
Anne Truitt: Daybook. The Journey of an Artist
Henry Glassie: The Spirit of Folk Art
Garard Degeorge and Yves Porter: The Art of the Islamic Tile
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