From the inside jacket: The quilt of the nineties has an open-ended definition. It embraces functional bedquilts, ingenious innovative quilts, avant-garde abstract quilts and fabulous fibre constructions...
A Passion for Quiltmaking profiles more than twenty leading contemporary South African quiltmakers. These quiltmakers have have all been involved with quiltmaking since the seventies and eighties when quiltmaking first emerged as a serious art medium in our country.
The reader is given a glance into the studios and environments of the quiltmakers. The book gives an insight into their sources of inspiration as the quiltmakers share their stories, ideas, techniques, materials, favourite books, and special quiltmaking tips
