How to Make an African Quilt - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How to Make an African Quilt write by Bonnie Lee Black. This book was released on 2013-03-21. How to Make an African Quilt available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Quilt Inspirations from Africa
Quilt Inspirations from Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quilt Inspirations from Africa write by Kaye England. This book was released on 2000. Quilt Inspirations from Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Spirits of the Cloth
Spirits of the Cloth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spirits of the Cloth write by Carolyn Mazloomi. This book was released on 1998. Spirits of the Cloth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.
Tar Beach
Tar Beach - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tar Beach write by Faith Ringgold. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Tar Beach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD WINNER • CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK • A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOK Acclaimed artist Faith Ringgold seamless weaves fiction, autobiography, and African American history into a magical story that resonates with the universal wish for freedom, and will be cherished for generations. Cassie Louise Lightfoot has a dream: to be free to go wherever she wants for the rest of her life. One night, up on “tar beach,” the rooftop of her family’s Harlem apartment building, her dreams come true. The stars lift her up, and she flies over the city, claiming the buildings and the city as her own. As Cassie learns, anyone can fly. “All you need is somewhere to go you can’t get to any other way. The next thing you know, you’re flying among the stars.”
Show Way
Show Way - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Show Way write by Jacqueline Woodson. This book was released on 2005-09-08. Show Way available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of a Newbery Honor! Soonie's great-grandma was just seven years old when she was sold to a big plantation without her ma and pa, and with only some fabric and needles to call her own. She pieced together bright patches with names like North Star and Crossroads, patches with secret meanings made into quilts called Show Ways -- maps for slaves to follow to freedom. When she grew up and had a little girl, she passed on this knowledge. And generations later, Soonie -- who was born free -- taught her own daughter how to sew beautiful quilts to be sold at market and how to read. From slavery to freedom, through segregation, freedom marches and the fight for literacy, the tradition they called Show Way has been passed down by the women in Jacqueline Woodson's family as a way to remember the past and celebrate the possibilities of the future. Beautifully rendered in Hudson Talbott's luminous art, this moving, lyrical account pays tribute to women whose strength and knowledge illuminate their daughters' lives.
