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This volume presents nineteenth-century American life as it was experienced and recorded by women with photograph-laden pages. The century's great movements and events are explored through the eyes of quilters. They tell the story of how women used quilts not only as bed coverings, but as mementos of their friends, artistic expressions in bleak lives, political commentary when they didn't have the vote, fund raising, and slogan flags.… (plus d'informations)
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For those historians and lovers of quilts in our past and present, who have worked diligently to retrieve and record the ives of the women who came before us and our rich quilt heritage. And to those yet to come, with the hope that they will continue.
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[Preface] This bok, Hearts and Hands, first appeared in 1987 as a companion volume to the film of the same name produced and directed by at Ferrero and associate-produced by Julie Silber.
When nineteenth-century women described their quilts as "bound volumes of hieroglyphics" or as their "albums" and their "di'ries," they were fully aware of what we have recently newly recognzied: that their stitched fabrics were often the most eloquent records of their lives.
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[Preface] These women made rich explorations of the quilt, as both private and public artifact and symbol, which remain our invaluable inheritance.
As we look back over the extraordinary range of uses to which nineteenth-century women put their quilts--to ceremonializing a friendship or beautifying a home to wielding them as weapons in a sustained series of campaigns against social injustice--we can newly claim their quilt culture as a "heritage of our own."
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This volume presents nineteenth-century American life as it was experienced and recorded by women with photograph-laden pages. The century's great movements and events are explored through the eyes of quilters. They tell the story of how women used quilts not only as bed coverings, but as mementos of their friends, artistic expressions in bleak lives, political commentary when they didn't have the vote, fund raising, and slogan flags.
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