Quilts among the Plain People - 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 Quilts among the Plain People write by Rachel T. Pellman. This book was released on 1981-12-01. Quilts among the Plain People available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover why so many Amish and Mennonites, committed to a simple life, make beautiful quilts. This book looks at quilting in plain communities and the possible origins of quilt patterns popular among the Amish and Mennonites. Why do so many Amish and Mennonites who are devoutly committed to a simple, austere life make beautiful quilts? Why this splash of beauty? What are the favorite designs? How has quilting become a part of the very fabric of Amish and Mennonite life? What are basic how-tos of quiltmaking? "Quilting has survived among these frugal, simple people because a quilt is not only apiece of art. It is also functional."
Amish Quilts
Amish Quilts - 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 Amish Quilts write by Janneken Smucker. This book was released on 2013-11-15. Amish Quilts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By thoroughly examining all of these aspects, Amish Quilts is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of these beautiful works.--Roderick Kiracofe, author of The American Quilt: A History of Cloth and Comfort, 1750-1950 "Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies"
A Gallery of Amish Quilts
A Gallery of Amish Quilts - 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 A Gallery of Amish Quilts write by Robert Bishop. This book was released on 1976. A Gallery of Amish Quilts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hidden in Plain View
Hidden in Plain View - 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 Hidden in Plain View write by Jacqueline L. Tobin. This book was released on 2011-05-25. Hidden in Plain View available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fascinating story of a friendship, a lost tradition, and an incredible discovery, revealing how enslaved men and women made encoded quilts and then used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. In Hidden in Plain View, historian Jacqueline Tobin and scholar Raymond Dobard offer the first proof that certain quilt patterns, including a prominent one called the Charleston Code, were, in fact, essential tools for escape along the Underground Railroad. In 1993, historian Jacqueline Tobin met African American quilter Ozella Williams amid piles of beautiful handmade quilts in the Old Market Building of Charleston, South Carolina. With the admonition to "write this down," Williams began to describe how slaves made coded quilts and used them to navigate their escape on the Underground Railroad. But just as quickly as she started, Williams stopped, informing Tobin that she would learn the rest when she was "ready." During the three years it took for Williams's narrative to unfold—and as the friendship and trust between the two women grew—Tobin enlisted Raymond Dobard, Ph.D., an art history professor and well-known African American quilter, to help unravel the mystery. Part adventure and part history, Hidden in Plain View traces the origin of the Charleston Code from Africa to the Carolinas, from the low-country island Gullah peoples to free blacks living in the cities of the North, and shows how three people from completely different backgrounds pieced together one amazing American story. With a new afterword. Illlustrations and photographs throughout, including a full-color photo insert.
Plain and Fancy
Plain and Fancy - 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 Plain and Fancy write by Richard Cleveland. This book was released on 1995-09-01. Plain and Fancy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Here are 45 quilts that tell the story of Vermont and its quiltmakers from the frontier days of the 1700s to the end of World War II.
