Author: Marsha MacDowell
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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.
African American Quiltmaking in Michigan
Author: Marsha MacDowell
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
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.
Michigan Quilts
Author: Marsha MacDowell
Publisher: Msu Museum
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Michigan Quilts celebrates the 150th year of Michigan's statehood by focusing attention on quilt making, quilts, and quilters. Quilts have always represented prized family possessions, important family and community documents, and the strength and breadth of quilting as an art activity in the state.
Publisher: Msu Museum
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Michigan Quilts celebrates the 150th year of Michigan's statehood by focusing attention on quilt making, quilts, and quilters. Quilts have always represented prized family possessions, important family and community documents, and the strength and breadth of quilting as an art activity in the state.
Always There
Author: Cuesta Benberry
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
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.
Liberated String Quilts
Author: Gwen Marston
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 9781571202079
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Contains an illustrated guide to twenty string quilt designs, including traditional and Amish, instructions for short strings, long strings, rectangles, and wedges, and photographs of antique string quilts.
Publisher: C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN: 9781571202079
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Contains an illustrated guide to twenty string quilt designs, including traditional and Amish, instructions for short strings, long strings, rectangles, and wedges, and photographs of antique string quilts.
An American Quilt
Author: Rachel May
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 168177478X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 168177478X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
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.
Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters
Author: Patricia Ann Turner
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604736465
Category : African American quiltmakers
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604736465
Category : African American quiltmakers
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Everlasting Threads
Author: Great Lakes Quilters' Network
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548722234
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
GLAAQN Everlasting Threads joins the cannon of documenting the stitching history of Michigan Black Women. In 1887, Mrs. Delia Barrier founded the Willing Workers Club in Detroit. Affiliated with the Needlework Guild of America, this group of fifty members raised funds through the sewing and selling of quilts for at least forty years. The 1915 Michigan Manual of Freedmen's Progress included mention of quilters Miss Fannie Anderson (Detroit) and Mrs. Dennison Graine (Kalamazoo). In the 1990s, the late Carolyn Lucille Warfield documented Michigan African American quilting guild activities and shared her articles in community and regional publications. In 1997, Michigan State University published African American Quiltmaking in Michigan, the first comprehensive study of Black American quilts by any US state. Today, longtime Detroit News columnist Jocelynn Brown continues to promote crafters, needle artists and quilters, through her "Homemade" articles. Now and 50 or 100 years in the future, we'll know about GLAAQN and its members when other guilds may be forgotten.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548722234
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
GLAAQN Everlasting Threads joins the cannon of documenting the stitching history of Michigan Black Women. In 1887, Mrs. Delia Barrier founded the Willing Workers Club in Detroit. Affiliated with the Needlework Guild of America, this group of fifty members raised funds through the sewing and selling of quilts for at least forty years. The 1915 Michigan Manual of Freedmen's Progress included mention of quilters Miss Fannie Anderson (Detroit) and Mrs. Dennison Graine (Kalamazoo). In the 1990s, the late Carolyn Lucille Warfield documented Michigan African American quilting guild activities and shared her articles in community and regional publications. In 1997, Michigan State University published African American Quiltmaking in Michigan, the first comprehensive study of Black American quilts by any US state. Today, longtime Detroit News columnist Jocelynn Brown continues to promote crafters, needle artists and quilters, through her "Homemade" articles. Now and 50 or 100 years in the future, we'll know about GLAAQN and its members when other guilds may be forgotten.
Great Lakes, Great Quilts
Author: Marsha MacDowell
Publisher: C&T Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Includes how-to information.
Publisher: C&T Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Includes how-to information.
African American Quilting
Author: Sule Greg C. Wilson
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823918546
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9780823918546
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
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:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.