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Title: A Communion Of The Spirits : African-American Quilters, Preservers, and Their Stories by Roland L. Freeman ISBN: 1-55853-425-3 Publisher: Rutledge Hill Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: History, heritage and creativity combined in one
Comment: Influenced by his love of quilts, photographer Roland Freeman acts as anthrolopologist and quilting historian in this beautiful, comprehensive book. Featuring full color photos of African-American quilts and quilters and well-researched text, this book is a must-read even for non-quilting enthusiasts. The history and cultural heritage of a people have been preserved in this beautiful artform. I found myself moved after reading this book. You will be too.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Communion of The Spirits is inspiring!
Comment: African-American Quilters, Preservers and Their Stories represents the first national survey & a personal record of how this photographer & folkorist's life has intertwined with the world of quiltmaking.
The communion refers to the power of quilts to create a virtual web of connections-individual, generational, professional, physical, spiritual, cultural & historical. Some of the names of those glorious quilts are: Rainbow Block; Slave Chain; Log Cabin; Three Pigs in a Pen; Double Wedding Ring; Black Jack Scarecrow; Monsters, Dragons and Flies; African Diaspora; African-American Women; African-American Men; Memories of My Father's Death; Memories; Scripture; Martin Luther King Jr.; Hand Me Down My Mother's Work; Mother Africa's Children; The Underground Railroad; Baltimore Arabber Selling Watermelons; Harriet Tubman Quilt & Tableau.
For all those who consider quilt making one of America's finest crafts, this will be a lifetime companion & will rekindle that dramatic & endearing form of art. Very well done!
You have got to read this book! It is filled with women & men & the love of fabric & colors; of the love of design & community coming together to stitch lives together. Do visit my site for my full review & more books on quilting.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best
Comment: I really enjoyed this book. You meet famous and not so famous people in this book. Some you will never forget like Hystercine Rankin, who made a quilt of her fathers killing in Mississippi, when she was only ten.She eventually won a $5000 prize for it. Or how the author talks about his family and the "healing quilt" and his lifelong affinity of quilts. The stories in here are good, and the quilts are out of this world. One of the best oral African American history books out there.
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Title: The Quilts of Gee's Bend by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Pauljane Arnett, Jane Livingston, Alvia Wardlaw, Peter Marzio ISBN: 0965376648 Publisher: Tinwood Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Spirits of the Cloth : Contemporary African American Quilts by Faith Ringgold, Carolyn Mazloomi ISBN: 0609600915 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 03 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Signs and Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts (2nd Edition) by Maude Southwell Wahlman ISBN: 0965376613 Publisher: Tinwood Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Hidden in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad by Raymond G. Dobard, Jacqueline L. Tobin ISBN: 0385497679 Publisher: Anchor Pub Pub. Date: 18 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South by Gladys-Marie Fry ISBN: 0807849952 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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