title: Polly Prindle's book of American patchwork quilts,
author:  Alice I Gammell 
description: Everything you need to know to make your choice of fifty of the most beautiful patchwork patterns from America's past. Includes advice on obtaining materials, clear, readable descriptions of the techniques required, and a brief and lively history of the art.
zlib_text: First published in 2020  
  by Galley Beggar Press  
  Dover Street, Norwich, NR2 3LG
  
  All rights reserved  
  © Alex Pheby, 2020
  
  The right of Alex Pheby to be identified as the author of this work has been
  asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
  
  This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade
  or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the
  publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in
  which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition
  imposed on the subsequent purchaser
  
  A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library
  
  Text and eBook design by [Tetragon, London](https://tetragonpublishing.com)
  
  ISBN 9781913111021  
  eISBN 9781913111083
  
  > >  _For Elliot, Alice and Polly_
  
  CONTENTS
  
   _Dramatis Personae_
  
  Part One: The Flint
  
  Part Two: The Char Cloth
  
  Part Three: Pyrolysis
  
  Part Four: The Tinderbox
  
   _Glossary_
  
   _Fragm