African American Quiltmaking In Michigan

Author : Marsha MacDowell
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( 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.

Author : Sule Greg C. Wilson
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823918546
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Marsha MacDowell
Publisher : Msu Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michigan Quilts written by Marsha MacDowell and published by Msu Museum. This book was released on 1987 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604736465
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative account of the powerful bonds between generations of African American quiltmakers

Author : Rachel May
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 168177478X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( 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 416 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.

Author : Cuesta Benberry
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( 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.

Author : Maude Wahlman
Publisher : Tinwood Books
ISBN 13 : 9780965376617
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( 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.

Author : Gwen Marston
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781571202079
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberated String Quilts written by Gwen Marston and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Carolyn Mazloomi
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( 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.

Author : Cuesta Benberry
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610753074
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( 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: