African Textiles and Dyeing Techniques - 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 African Textiles and Dyeing Techniques write by Claire Polakoff. This book was released on 1982-01-01. African Textiles and Dyeing Techniques available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Redemption in Indigo
Redemption in Indigo - 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 Redemption in Indigo write by Karen Lord. This book was released on 2024-06-11. Redemption in Indigo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The enchanting tale of mischief and myth—inspired by West African folklore—that became a fantasy classic, from the award-winning author of The Blue, Beautiful World Paama is a marvelous cook who’s had the bad fortune to marry Ansige. He was the least eligible bachelor in his village: self-centered, foolish, and food-obsessed. Paama has had enough of this miserable life with her gluttonous husband, and so leaves him to return to her old life with her family. But Paama does not know that this is the beginning of a remarkable adventure. Because the Undying Ones are watching her. These spirits observe the follies of mortal life . . . and sometimes meddle and make mischief. One of these beings presents her with a magical artifact known as the Chaos Stick, which he says is “great for stirring things up.” As Paama gets to know the powers of this marvelous gift, she learns that the Chaos Stick was stolen from a rival spirit, who decides to stir up some trouble of his own. But mastering this magical artifact is only the beginning of Paama’s quest. Although Paama has been granted great power by the Undying Ones, her real journey is to find the magic that lies within herself.
The Indigo Book
The Indigo Book - 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 The Indigo Book write by Christopher Jon Sprigman. This book was released on 2017-07-11. The Indigo Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This public domain book is an open and compatible implementation of the Uniform System of Citation.
Indigo
Indigo - 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 Indigo write by Catherine E. McKinley. This book was released on 2012-08-01. Indigo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indigo is the rich, electrifying history of a precious dye: its relationship to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its profound influence on fashion, and its spiritual significance - all very much alive today. But it is also the story of a personal quest: Catherine McKinley's ancestors include a clan of Scots who wore indigo tartan, several generations of Jewish 'rag traders' and Massachusetts textile factory owners, and African slaves who were traded along the same Saharan routes as indigo. Her journey takes her to nine West African countries and is resplendent with powerful lessons of heritage and history which shape the way she understands her world at home.
Indigo
Indigo - 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 Indigo write by Ellen Bass. This book was released on 2020-04-07. Indigo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A bold and passionate new collection... Intimacy is rarely conveyed as gracefully as in Bass’s lustrous poems.” —Booklist Indigo, the newest collection by Ellen Bass, merges elegy and praise poem in an exploration of life’s complexities. Whether her subject is oysters, high heels, a pork chop, a beloved dog, or a wife’s return to health, Bass pulls us in with exquisite immediacy. Her lush and precisely observed descriptions allow us to feel the sheer primal pleasure of being alive in our own “succulent skin,” the pleasure of the gifts of hunger, desire, touch. In this book, joy meets regret, devotion meets dependence, and most importantly, the poet so in love with life and living begins to look for the point where the price of aging overwhelms the rewards of staying alive. Bass is relentless in her advocacy for the little pleasures all around her. Her gaze is both expansive and hyperfocused, celebrating (and eulogizing) each gift as it is given and taken, while also taking stock of the larger arc. She draws the lines between generations, both remembering her parents’ lives and deaths and watching her own children grow into the space that she will leave behind. Indigo shows us the beauty of this cycle, while also documenting the deeply human urge to resist change and hang on to the life we have, even as it attempts to slip away.
