The Museum Shop-Talk Elizabeth Tobin, Manager
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Each issue of The Clarion will feature a list of books and catalogues on a selected subject as well as a description of a few of the things related to folk art available in The Museum Shop. Inspired by The Clarion's cover illustration of the "Double Wedding Ring" quilt, this first book list concerns quilts and coverlets. The titles included emphasize historical development and design tradition rather than instructions in quilt-making or weaving. Each one is available from The Museum Shop. The books by Finley and Webster are reprints of earlier editions. Perhaps your mother or grandmother has a first edition of these books on her library shelf, but we have yet to see them in a bookstore other than ours. Several books on this list were written by members of our Museum family. Bruce Johnson, our former director, was responsible for A Child's Comfort, Baby and Doll Quilts in American Folk Art which illustrates all of the quilts shown in a special exhibition at the Museum last winter. Three of the books carry the name of our director, Dr. Robert Bishop; one the name of our assistant director, Patricia Coblentz; three other authors well-known to us as members of the Museum are Jonathan Holstein, Patsy Orlofsky, and Phyllis Haders, who is a member of our Friends Committee. For further reading on the article by Dr. Robert Bishop, "Edward Sands Frost and His Historic Hooked Rug Patterns," which appears in this issue, we have on our shelves The Descriptive Catalogue of E.S. Frost and Co.'s Hooked Rug Patterns from Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum (2.50). Folk art enthusiasts continue to look to the publishing company of E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., for its ever-increasing number of folk art publications. The three books illustrated in their advertisement in this magazine, How to Know American Folk Art edited by Ruth Andrews (6.95);A Gallery of Amish Quilts by Robert Bishop and Elizabeth Safanda (cloth 17.50; softcover 9.95); and Pictorial Guide to American Antiques by Dorothy Hammond (8.95), can all be purchased from The Museum Shop. From books to calendars—By August we will have the 1978 edition of The Quilt Engagement Calendar (5.95) with 58 full-color quilts selected by Cyril I. Nelson, a Museum Trustee. We still receive requests for the first of The Quilt Engagement Calendar series printed in 1975. We consider it The Museum Shop tradition to carry this quilt engagement calendar every year. Another calendar entitled Folk Quilts 13.50) illustrates twelve quilts, one for each month. Each quilt was originally seen in the special exhibition, "A Child's Comfort, Baby and Doll Quilts in American Folk Art." This calendar was especially designed and printed so that the illustrations on each page can be removed and used as a postcard.