America's Glorious Quilts pays tribute to quilt makers and their art form by reproducing the best American quilts from all historical periods. 272 quilts in all, most in one-page or half-page glossy color photographs. Noted quilt historians contribute essays on the myriad forms quilts have assumed, from the brilliant-hued geometrical patchwork of the Amish to the soft curving of traditional Hawaiian applique to the imaginative approaches of contemporary quilt artists like Nancy Crow, and Michael James.