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African American Quiltmaking in Michigan
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.
Signs & Symbols
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
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.
Always There
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.
Spirits of the Cloth
The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.
Accidentally on Purpose
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 grand...
Signs and Symbols
In a colorful and illuminating celebration of African American quilting styles--and an exciting complement to the classic Stitched From the Soul--the author explores African religious symbols, textile techniques, and aesthetic traditions. 200 color photos.
Spirits of the Cloth
The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.
