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Title: Black Threads: An African American Quilting Sourcebook by Kyra E. Hicks ISBN: 0-7864-1374-3 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: 02 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $38.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ground Breaking and Exciting!!
Comment: I can't say enough about the importance of this book. Every one who is interested in acquiring a true perspective on the diverse history of American quiltmaking and the role that African American quilters played in that history must own a copy of this book. Kyra Hicks spent many years tracing information about African American quilters that would otherwise soon be lost to us all. She has been diligent, careful and intensely rigorous as a scholar--and, she took this on as a true labor of love. Althugh she received some support from a national organization, Kyra Hicks used personal funds and many unpaid hours to complete this project.
The book istself is extremely well organized, and provides a wealth of detail and resources. Anyone planning to give a lecture or write an article about the history of quiltmaking will find material here that would be very difficult to access otherwise.
This book is also important becasue too many of the other books and articles only focused on the improvisational string quilt or improvisational patchwork quilt, which is only one genre of African American quilt making. Kyra clearly documents that African American quilters worked and continue to create quilts in all forms and genres.
The book has chapters documenting the influence that quilting has had on other artists and art genres as well. One of the remarkable images is that of a quilt designed by Romare Bearden, an internationally known African American artist who is generally known as one of the premier collagists of the 20th Century.
Kyra also conducted extensive online surveys of quilters, and documented very interesting facts about the enormous buying power of African American quilters in the United States. This material alone is worth the price of the book to companies that sell fabric and patterns to the quilt market.
My only regret is that the book had only a few color images. I wish that the publisher would have Kyra create a companion book in color with more of the images of the unique and unusual quilts and lesser known quilters she found.
Finally, the book is a comprehensive reference to galleries and collections for those who wish to explore the owrld of African American quiltmaking further. Buy and keep this book on your shelf--it will be useful and remarkable reading for years to come.
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Title: Signs and Symbols: African Images in African American Quilts (2nd Edition) by Maude Southwell Wahlman ISBN: 0965376613 Publisher: Tinwood Books Pub. Date: 09 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Quilts of Gee's Bend by John Beardsley, William Arnett, Pauljane Arnett, Jane Livingston, Alvia Wardlaw, Peter Marzio ISBN: 0965376648 Publisher: Tinwood Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South by Gladys-Marie Fry ISBN: 0807849952 Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 30 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: A Piece of My Soul: Quilts by Black Arkansans by Cuesta Benberry, Raymond G. Dobard ISBN: 1557286205 Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Underground Railroad Sampler by Eleanor Burns ISBN: 1891776134 Publisher: Quilt in a Day Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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