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Quilt Arts of South Africa: Threaded Legacies

Quilt Arts of South Africa: Threaded Legacies - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Marsha MacDowell (Editor), Coral Bijoux (Contribution by), Elsa Brits (Contribution by)Publish date:2025-05-27Pages:250
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253072580ISBN-10:253072581UPC:9780253072580Book Category:Crafts & Hobbies, Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Quilts & Quilting, African, Folklore & MythologyProduct ID:SC12RKT829

In the southernmost region of the African continent, women have been piecing together materials--textile construction techniques commonly used in quilting-- to create bed coverings throughout the history of the San and Khoi peoples. From the late seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century, an influx of Dutch, French, Indian, and British military personnel, traders, miners, and missionaries came to South Africa, bringing with them their own cultural traditions, including making and using quilts. Today, the making of quilts in South Africa is flourishing.

Quilt Arts of South Africa stitches together the history, production, and significance of quilt making from its earliest appearance in the continent's southernmost region to the twenty-first century. With input from curators, linguists, art historians, activist artists, and folklorists, this book presents disparate yet connected inquiries into a wide-ranging history of the quilt. These perspectives connect a rich expressive art to place, showing how the quilting traditions in South Africa together reflect a unique cultural history and natural landscape.

Itself pieced together from diverse voices, Quilt Arts of South Africa offers glimpses into the histories and meanings of quilting in South Africa.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253072580ISBN-10:253072581UPC:9780253072580Book Category:Crafts & Hobbies, Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Quilts & Quilting, African, Folklore & MythologyProduct ID:SC12RKT829

Marsha MacDowell is Professor of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University, Curator at the Michigan State University Museum, and Director of the Quilt Index (www.quiltindex.org). She has authored many publications on traditional material culture and quiltmaking, including Quilts and Health.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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