Home-Craft Rugs, Their Historic Background, Romance of Stitchery and Method of Making de Walker, Lydia Le Baron - 1929

New York: Fredricks Stokes Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Tan cloth stamped with blue and blue-green. 421 pp. Index. Illustrated by Mary Evangeline Walker with 5 full color plates & 8 full page line drawings and numerous intext drawings. Color frontispiece of Antique Quilted Prayer Rug, w/ tissue. Small nick on back board top and fore edge; dust soil; the first pastedown has surface paper loss. Neatly penned is the former owners name and date (1929). A history of handmade rugs which also offeres rug making instruction. Covering the renaissance of rug craft; equipment's to textiles, patterns and type. The author explains how any woman in any home with simple equipment can also make these rugs. A fascinating book of history and instruction, what a treasure. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall .