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Quilt Arts of South Africa: Threaded Legacies

Current price: $45.00
Quilt Arts of South Africa: Threaded Legacies
Quilt Arts of South Africa: Threaded Legacies

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Quilt Arts of South Africa: Threaded Legacies

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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. stitches together the history, production, and significance of quiltmaking as material culture in South Africa from its earliest appearance in the 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, offers glimpses into the histories and meanings of quilting in South Africa.

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