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Quilt Africa

Author : Jenny Williamson
Publisher : American Quilter's Society
ISBN 13 : 9781574328523
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (285 download)

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Download or read book Quilt Africa written by Jenny Williamson and published by American Quilter's Society. This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best-selling textbook in its field, The Last Dance offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of death and dying. Integrating the experiential, scholarly, social, individual, emotional, and intellectual dimensions of death and dying, this acclaimed text provides solid grounding in theory and research, as well as practical application to students' lives. The ninth edition has been updated to offer cutting-edge and comprehensive coverage of death studies.

An African Quilt

Author : Barbara H. Solomon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101617446
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book An African Quilt written by Barbara H. Solomon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships. Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, An African Quilt depicts a place where even everyday life is extraordinary, and the continent’s history changes what it means to be a woman, an employee, a couple, a passerby, and, of course, a citizen. Revealed through the backdrop of postcolonial Africa, the struggles within these stories resonate beyond their context and appeal to every reader’s sense of what it means to be human. Includes Stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nadine Gordimer (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Bessie Head, Doris Lessing (Winner of the Nobel Prize), Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Others

How to Make an African Quilt

Author : Bonnie Lee Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615773391
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book How to Make an African Quilt written by Bonnie Lee Black and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches of our lives? How do we stitch cultural differences, join disparate worlds, to create something both beautiful and useful? Bonnie Lee Black subtly addresses these universal questions through vivid stories of her life-changing experience living and working in the fabled city of Segou, Mali, in West Africa. At the request of a talented group of Malian seamstresses, Black taught them the craft of American patchwork quilting and spearheaded an economic development effort called the Patchwork Project. She has now created a many-layered patchwork quilt of a book that brings that time and place and all its colorful characters to life on the page. Threaded throughout is the fictional narrative of Jeneba, a slave-quilter in the antebellum American South who had been kidnapped from the Kingdom of Segou as a child, as well as the real voices of the Malian women who took part in the Patchwork Project.

African American Quilting

Author : Sule Greg C. Wilson
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823918546
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (185 download)

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Book Synopsis African American Quilting by : Sule Greg C. Wilson

Download or read book African American Quilting written by Sule Greg C. Wilson and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the symbolism, stories, and family meaning that make American quilting a rich art form; includes the how-to of quilting; and touches on other crafts of the African-American tradition, offering readers a chance to cultivate their own artistic talents.

Spirits of the Cloth

Author : Carolyn Mazloomi
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits of the Cloth written by Carolyn Mazloomi and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 1998 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.

Black Threads

Author : Kyra E. Hicks
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9781476667102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Black Threads written by Kyra E. Hicks and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One million African Americans spend approximately $118 million annually on quilting. Some believe that recent studies of oral histories telling of the role quilting played in the Underground Railroad have inspired African Americans to take up their fabric and needles, but whatever the reason, quilters like Faith Ringgold, Clementine Hunter, Winnie McQueen, and many others are keeping the African American traditions of quilting alive. This is the first comprehensive guide to African American quilt history and contemporary practices. It offers more than 1,700 bibliographic references, many of them annotated, covering exhibit catalogs, books, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, films, novels, poetry, speeches, works of art, advertisements, patterns, greeting cards, auction results, ephemeral items, and online resources on African American quilting. The book also includes primary research done by the author on the Internet usage of African American quilters, a listing of over 100 museums with African American-made quilts in their permanent collections, a directory of African American quilting groups in 29 states, and a detailed timeline that covers 200 years of African American quilting and needle arts events.

Quilt Inspirations from Africa

Author : Kaye England
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 : 9780844242064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Quilt Inspirations from Africa written by Kaye England and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing many designs, this book offers quilters useful ideas and techniques. It features colourful photographs of design motifs in totem poles, carnival masks, murals, and more. It also includes sixteen illustrated patterns that invite quilters to create their own Africa-inspired quilts.

Always There

Author : Cuesta Benberry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Always There written by Cuesta Benberry and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoughtfully written by curator Cuesta Benberry as catalogue for The Kentucky Quilt Project's installation of 1992 exhibition by the same title. Features 35 quilts in full color. Forewords by Jonathan Holstein & Shelly Zegart. Text discusses the historical context of African-American quiltmaking in the mainstream of American quilting and reviews some of the current artists' use of quilts as their point of reference.

Stitching Memories

Author : Eva Ungar Grudin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stitching Memories written by Eva Ungar Grudin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Accidentally on Purpose

Author : Eli Leon
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Accidentally on Purpose written by Eli Leon and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exuberantly illustrated book celebrates the sophistication, vivacity, and significance of improvisational African-Aemrican quilts, both as artistic achievements and as expressions of African-American traditions. The knowledge, attitudes, and values carried across the Atlantic by enslaved Africans appear to have informed a quiltmaking tradition so powerful that, to this day, it preserves its identity in a special province of African-American quilts. Such "Afro-traditional" quilts are made by people who have no formal art training and who usually do not consider themselves artists; they learned their craft and absorbed its aesthetics by watching and helping their mothers, aunts, and grandmothers who, in turn, learned form previous generations. The resulting--often highly idiosyncratic--quilts call out to be seen as the works of art that they are. The brilliance of this work must be partially credited to a tradition which encourages individual expression and provides a context in which the talents of individual artists can flourish. Improvisation, pervasive in black African art and familiar as a basic element of many African-American musical forms, is a vital force in this tradition. The artists maintain a generous attitude toward the accidental, embracing innovations that originate beyond the conscious domain. they use approximate measurement and "flexible patterning," in which the design, conceived of as a an invitation to variation, will not repeat, but will materialize in a sequence of visual elaborations. Afro-traditional attitudes and methods are antithetical to the standard American quiltmaking tradition--practiced by both whites and blacks--in which great value is placed on precise measurement and exact pattern replication. Instead they bear a keen likeness to the improvisatory practices of the textile-makers of Kongo and West Africa, regions from which American slaves were taken. These antipathies and affinities suggest an enduring African influence on the Afro-traditional quilt.

Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters

Author : Patricia Ann Turner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736465
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters by : Patricia Ann Turner

Download or read book Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters written by Patricia Ann Turner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

African American Quiltmaking in Michigan

Author : Marsha MacDowell
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African American Quiltmaking in Michigan written by Marsha MacDowell and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable, historical contribution, this is the first book on the quiltmaking tradition of African Americans in Michigan. With 60 photographs of quilts, it brings together many images in the exploration of African American quilting and examines quiltmaking as a form women have used to make a contribution to the historic meaning of the African American family and community.

An American Quilt

Author : Rachel May
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168177478X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book An American Quilt written by Rachel May and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era—all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure-trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830sera fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words “shuger,” “rum,” “casks,” and “West Indies,” repeated over and over, along with “friendship,” “kindness,” “government,” and “incident.” The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba—the enslaved women behind the quilt—and their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.

Stitched from the Soul

Author : Gladys-Marie Fry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807849958
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Stitched from the Soul written by Gladys-Marie Fry and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally published in 1989, Stitched from the Soul was the first book to examine the history of quilting in the enslaved community and to place slave-made quilts into historical and cultural context. It remains a beautiful and moving tribute to an African American tradition. Undertaking a national search to locate slave-crafted textiles, Gladys-Marie Fry uncovered a treasure trove of pieces. The 123 color and black and white photographs featured here highlight many of the finest and most interesting examples of the quilts, woven coverlets, counterpanes, rag rugs, and crocheted artifacts attributed to slave women and men. In a new preface, Fry reflects on the inspiration behind her original research--the desire to learn more about her enslaved great-great-grandmother, a skilled seamstress--and on the deep and often emotional chords the book has struck among readers bonded by an interest in African American artistry.

Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans (c)

Author : Cuesta Benberry
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753074
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans (c) written by Cuesta Benberry and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Signs & Symbols

Author : Maude Wahlman
Publisher : Tinwood Books
ISBN 13 : 9780965376617
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Signs & Symbols written by Maude Wahlman and published by Tinwood Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quilt expert Wahlman introduces readers to a powerful force in African-American quilts: their African-derived meanings, patterns, and iconography. She explores the religious, ritual, philosophical, and aesthetic beliefs that have been retained by descendants of Africans in the New World and demonstrates how these beliefs are represented in their textiles. 150 illustrations.

1.6 Million African American Quilters: Survey, Sites, and a Half-Dozen Art Quilt Blocks

Author : Kyra E. Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982479674
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book 1.6 Million African American Quilters: Survey, Sites, and a Half-Dozen Art Quilt Blocks written by Kyra E. Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy, eye-opening booklet about today's Black quiltmakers offering the latest quilt industry figures; most comprehensive resource of websites, blogs, and YouTube videos featuring African American quilters and guilds, including references to textile artists, doll makers, fabric designers, and quilters from the African diaspora; six afro-centrically designed art quilt blocks by Washington, D.C. artist Francine Haskins--P. [4] of cover.