The American Quilt Story

Author : Rachel May
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681774787

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An American Quilt by Rachel May Pdf

Rachel May’s rich new book explores the far reach of slavery, from New England to the Caribbean, the role it played in the growth of mercantile America, and the bonds between the agrarian south and the industrial north in the antebellum era—all through the discovery of a remarkable quilt. While studying objects in a textile collection, May opened a veritable treasure-trove: a carefully folded, unfinished quilt made of 1830sera fabrics, its backing containing fragile, aged papers with the dates 1798, 1808, and 1813, the words “shuger,” “rum,” “casks,” and “West Indies,” repeated over and over, along with “friendship,” “kindness,” “government,” and “incident.” The quilt top sent her on a journey to piece together the story of Minerva, Eliza, Jane, and Juba—the enslaved women behind the quilt—and their owner, Susan Crouch. May brilliantly stitches together the often-silenced legacy of slavery by revealing the lives of these urban enslaved women and their world. Beautifully written and richly imagined, An American Quilt is a luminous historical examination and an appreciation of a craft that provides such a tactile connection to the past.

Author : Whitney Otto
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804181228

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How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto Pdf

“Remarkable . . . It is a tribute to an art form that allowed women self-expression even when society did not. Above all, though, it is an affirmation of the strength and power of individual lives, and the way they cannot help fitting together.”—The New York Times Book Review An extraordinary and moving novel, How to Make an American Quilt is an exploration of women of yesterday and today, who join together in a uniquely female experience. As they gather year after year, their stories, their wisdom, their lives, form the pattern from which all of us draw warmth and comfort for ourselves. The inspiration for the major motion picture featuring Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, and Maya Angelou Praise for How to Make an American Quilt “Fascinating . . . highly original . . . These are beautiful individual stories, stitched into a profoundly moving whole. . . . A spectrum of women’s experience in the twentieth century.”—Los Angeles Times “Intensely thoughtful . . . In Grasse, a small town outside Bakersfield, the women meet weekly for a quilting circle, piercing together scraps of their husbands’ old workshirts, children’s ragged blankets, and kitchen curtains. . . . Like the richly colored, well-placed shreds that make up the substance of an American quilt, details serve to expand and illuminate these characters. . . . The book spans half a century and addresses not only [these women’s] histories but also their children’s, their lovers’, their country’s, and in the process, their gender’s.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A radiant work of art . . . It is about mothers and daughters; it is about the estrangement and intimacy between generations. . . . A compelling tale.”—The Seattle Times

Author : Susan Kirby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780689809712

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Daniel's Story by Susan Kirby Pdf

Daniel leaves the family farm in 1890 to find his father in South Dakota -- and finds a big surprise as well.

Author : Tony Johnston
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780525517917

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The Quilt Story by Tony Johnston Pdf

After a move to a new home, comfort comes from a surprising place. Long ago, a young girl named Abigail put her beloved patchwork quilt in the attic. Generations later, another young girl discovers the quilt and makes it her own, relying on its warmth to help her feel secure in a new home.

Author : Roderick Kiracofe
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1617691232

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Unconventional & Unexpected: American Quilts Below the Radar 1950-2000 by Roderick Kiracofe Pdf

Presents 150 quilts from the author's collection which were made during the second half of the twentieth century by anonymous quilters in the United States, along with a series of essays on quilt making as an art form.

Author : Jenny Doan
Publisher : Harper Horizon
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780785253051

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How to Stitch an American Dream by Jenny Doan Pdf

Faith, family, hard work, and second chances are at the core of every great American story, and Jenny Doan’s story is just that. In her new memoir, How to Stitch an American Dream, readers will discover the behind-the-scenes success story of the Missouri Star Quilt Company and Jenny’s remarkable journey to overcome hardship, claim the abundance of family, and ignite the power of giving—all while revitalizing a small town along the way. Over the last decade, the Doan family business, the Missouri Star Quilt Company in tiny Hamilton, Missouri, has grown from Jenny’s corner shop--with one quilting machine and two bolts of fabric for sale in the back--to become the largest supplier of pre-cut quilting fabric in the headquarters of Jenny’s world-famous YouTube tutorial videos. Jenny is now giving her fans, the business world, and moms of all ages (and grandmas too!) what they’ve been asking for: the full story of her journey, from her humble beginnings as a homeschooling mom, to founding MSQC in her fifties, through the remarkable success and inspiration she’s so well-known for today. In this book, you’ll learn: How she and her beloved husband, Ron, raised seven children on a shoestring budget— and had fun doing it; How, after a string of bad luck, the family made a prayer-based decision to leave California behind and start over again in rural Missouri, even though they had no place to live, no jobs lined up, and no idea how they were going to make it; How Jenny, Ron and their children worked side-by-side to patch together a family home out of a crumbling shell of a farmhouse; And how their faith, hard work, and generosity not only carried them through the hard times, but led directly to the success of the Missouri Star Quilt Company. How to Stitch an American Dream will make you laugh, cry, say “bless your heart.”

Author : Susan Jenkins,Linda Seward
Publisher : Rodale Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : WISC:89066997909

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The American Quilt Story by Susan Jenkins,Linda Seward Pdf

A chronological history of the American quilt from Colonial to Twentieth Century. Includes patterns and directions for 30 quilts.

Author : Roderick Kiracofe
Publisher : Three Rivers Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015059570922

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The American Quilt by Roderick Kiracofe Pdf

The most important, comprehensive, and sumptuously illustrated addition to the literature of quilting since Quilts in America.

Author : Spike Gillespie
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-21
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781610600910

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Quilts Around the World by Spike Gillespie Pdf

This essential book for all quilters and quilt collectors tells the fascinating story of quilting around the world, illuminated by the international quilt community’s top experts and more than 300 glorious color photographs. Covering Japan, China, Korea, and India; England, Ireland, France, and The Netherlands; Australia, Africa, Central America, North America, and beyond, Quilts Around the World explores both the diversity and common threads of quilting. Discover Aboriginal patchwork from Australia, intricate Rallis from the Middle East, Amish and Hawaiian quilts from the United States, Sashiko quilts from Japan, vivid Molas from Central America, and art quilts from every corner of the globe. Also included are twenty patchwork and applique patterns to use in your own quilt projects, inspired by designs from the world’s most striking quilts.

Author : Patty McCormick
Publisher : C & T Pub
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1571200126

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Patty McCormick's Pieces of an American Quilt by Patty McCormick Pdf

Describes the design, creation, and filming of the quilts in the movie "How to Make an American Quilt," and includes patterns for two quilts

Author : Suzi Parron,Donna Sue Groves
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780804040495

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Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement by Suzi Parron,Donna Sue Groves Pdf

The story of the American Quilt Trail, featuring the colorful patterns of quilt squares painted large on barns throughout North America, is the story of one of the fastest-growing grassroots public arts movements in the United States and Canada. In Barn Quilts and the American Quilt Trail Movement Suzi Parron takes us to twenty-five states as well as Canada to visit the people and places that have put this movement on America’s tourist and folk art map. Through dozens of interviews with barn quilt artists, committee members, and barn owners, Parron documents a journey that began in 2001 with the founder of the movement, Donna Sue Groves. Groves’s desire to honor her mother with a quilt square painted on their barn became a group effort that eventually grew into a county-wide project. Today, quilt squares form a long imaginary clothesline, appearing on more than three thousand barns scattered along one hundred and twenty driving trails. With more than eighty full-color photographs, Parron documents here a movement that combines rural economic development with an American folk art phenomenon.

Author : Lori Holt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734931655

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Flea Market by Lori Holt Pdf

Author : Susan Kirby
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780689809705

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Hattie's Story by Susan Kirby Pdf

Set in 1856, Hattie's father's dangerous work for the Underground Railroad jeopardizes the entire family's safety.

Author : Carolyn Mazloomi
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000056730025

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Spirits of the Cloth by Carolyn Mazloomi Pdf

The author presents a collection of 150 contemporary African American quilts and the stories behind both the quilts and the quilters.

Author : Gwen Marston
Publisher : University of MICHIGAN REGIONAL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000094735036

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Mary Schafer, American Quilt Maker by Gwen Marston Pdf

The story of the woman who helped create the modern American quilting revival