Connecticut Needlework: Women, Art, and Family, 1740-1840 By Susan P. Schoelwer Wesleyan University Press, 2010 - 220 pages Paperback $50 + $5 postage (CT residents add 6.35% tax) Connecticut women have long been noted for their creation of colorful and distinctive needlework, including samplers and family registers, bed rugs and memorial pictures, crewel-embroidered bed hangings and garments, silk-embroidered pictures of classical or religious scenes, quilted petticoats and bedcovers, and whitework dresses and linens. This volume offers the first regional study, encompassing the full range of needle arts produced prior to 1840. Seventy entries showcase more than one hundred fascinating examples--many never before published--from the Connecticut Historical Society's extensive collection of this early American art form. Produced almost exclusively by women and girls, the needle arts provide an illuminating vantage point for exploring early American women's history and education, including family-based traditions predating the establishment of formal academies after the American Revolution.  Send check or money order to: (No credit cards please!) Stephen & Carol Huber, 156 Blood St., Lyme, Connecticut 06475 If you have any questions, please call 860 304-9459 View Other Books and Merchandise