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Quilt Arts of South Africa : Threaded Legacies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- MacDowell, Marsha.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quiltmakers--South Africa.
- Quiltmakers.
- Quilts--South Africa.
- Quilts.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Traditional bedding and cloak-blankets of the Indigenous people of South Africa / Menán Du Plessis
- South African kappies / Vicky Heunis
- The Boer War quilt : discovering history through studying a textile / Michael Walwyn
- Potchefstroom : a regional center of South African quilt history / Miems Lamprecht
- Zamani quilters of Soweto / Marsha MacDowell
- The Keiskamma Guernica / Brenda Schmahmann.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-07260-3
- 0-253-07259-X
- OCLC:
- 1525551211
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