...quilts Like their ancestors, the women of Gee’s Bend used the quilting technique of string quilting to make quilts faster, this often involved stitching together long strips of rags. Much like their African ancestors, the quilters worked without patterns and used irregular shapes. . Callahan describes how the women organized a quilting bee headed up by Estelle Witherspoon, who was the driving force behind the development of the bee. Mary Boykin Robinson, was the director of the day care center which was attached the Freedom Quilting Bee’s sewing center. Nettie Pettway Young and China Grove Myles were also listed as founding members of this organization and are known for their unique quilting style known as “pine burr...
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...A quilt is a warm bed covering made of three layers: top, padding, and backing. Quilting is an ancient craft that has been the subject of many changes of use over the centuries. Quilts are one of the most useful objects within numerous cultures and throughout history, as they carry far more than a form of warmth and protection. However, quilts are so much more than that, as they have also developed as an art form of decoration. The art of quilting means something different to everyone, but all quilts have a unique appearance and tradition. Quilts are used for various reasons throughout history and they have been a sentimental part of the real–world quilt culture for many years. Quilting has played a significant role in society, as it...
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...Western communities, quilting began as a way of using limited supplies in a unique way in order to create bounty where naught could be found. “It is pioneer women, who overcame limited supplies with great creativity and perserverence of spirit, and brought the humble Patchwork Quilt into the fabric of American history and society. The Pioneer Quilting Bee was a spring and summertime way of socializing after being housebound all winter (and of finishing the quilt tops that were pieced throughout the winter months).” (Amish Quilter website) Bees, as they were called, were borne from necessity and grew into a greater power. The power of the feminine bond is strong. Women storytelling is a core of the bee. Quilting became an outlet and a form of sisterhood that is now very much the root of the Amish family order. “Like the traditional barn-raising, where members of the community work together to build a barn, quilting bees offer opportunities for the women to help each other. Socializing as they work, Amish quilters gather around a quilt frame and finish several tops in a single afternoon. “(Quilting in America) Although it began as a simple form of piecing scraps together to make use of every bit, the art of quilting became an outlet it seems for the women of this society. Quilting became a freedom from the boundaries. Eccentric designs have arisen where nondescript where the norm. It became a way for women to show there spirit without shame. “Amish quilting grew out of a German...
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...Emerald Quilting Company E-Business (QRT2) Task 1 Proposal for Online Business Expansion Emerald Quilting Company E-Business (QRT2) Task 1 Proposal for Online Business Expansion A1. Viability of Product The Emerald Quilting Company is located at Henderson, KY and has been in operation since 2009. This company receives the majority of its income from the sale of quilting fabrics, notions and other craft supplies that can be used for the most popular craft projects. To date the Emerald Quilting Company has only had success in a brick and mortar type business. Customers come to the building to peruse the multitude of fabrics available for purchase. Classes have also been offered and held within the business hours. The Digital Age has put a lot of pressure on current businesses to build an online presence since customers are now in touch with the internet round the clock. Since there is a growing demand for online purchasing, this business is in dire need to create its own online environment. The online environment vision would include merchandise that is featured in the retail store as well as online crafting classes. The culmination of the local retail store as well as creating an online store will greatly impact the expansion and future growth on revenue. The business has decided to place an emphasis on allowing customers to create and personalize their own fabric. A pilot run has been implemented in the local retail environment and has increased the sales by 30%. ...
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...Ringgold is a prominent African American, mixed media artist from Harlem, New York known for her painting, quilting, and activism. Ringgold’s artistic journey is intertwined deeply with her experiences as a black woman in America. Some of Ringgold’s most influential pieces are her narrative quilts. The designs, colors, and fabric are all woven together to represent the personal and historical stories from the African American perspective. Through her quilts, Ringgold brings attention to overlooked histories and celebrates the resilience of her community. Her artwork explores themes like race and gender, which challenge societal norms and advocates for equality. Born in Harlem, New York in 1930, Faith Ringgold was brought up in a community that embraced creativity. The Harlem Renaissance exposed her to many African-American artists, such as Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. Additionally, art was very intertwined with her own family, particularly fiber arts. Her mother was a fashion designer who taught Faith how to sew and create patterns with fabric at a young age (Seiferle). Ringgold’s great-great-great-grandmother made quilts as...
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...Discussion Questions Review “Feminist interpretations of intellectual property” in Chapter 9. Please respond to the following: •Explain why, according to Halbert, quilting and knitting are traditionally outside the realm of copyright protection. There have been changes in the world of knitting. The long history of sharing patterns among knitters was done in easy to share formats with minimal concerns for copyright issues. But today a dominance of ownership has been privatized to maximize in profits. Both quality and knitting were primary ways of creating and have existed outside copyright law perhaps because the romantic author and the desire for profit were not central to the process of creation. The knitting patterns were sold to make money and not to further the culture of knitting. •Discuss how and why this is changing. The change in the traditional way of quilting and knitting versus the copyright protection is the dominance of ownership. Everything now is being privatized while maximizing on the profits. A personal signature, individualizing the patterns, allows a financial gain for anyone wanting to ‘copy’ a pattern. •Explain why crafts like these do not fit inside the copyright paradigm. These crafts were known for completion amongst women enjoying the company of each other. The crafts don’t fit into copyright paradigm because it attempts to solidify connections between people and not divide people by property boundaries. •Discuss what values underlie authorship...
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...utilizes symbolism to highlight the dispute between two different points of view of, or approaches to, the African-American culture, showing that culture and heritage are parts of daily life. Through the use of symbolism, there are three of which I will refer to, one being the quilts, the tangible objects of the family heirloom, the yard, which she emphasis on and its physical characteristics, and then there’s the name changing, when Dee changed her name to a traditional African name, Wangero. The quilts were the most compelling symbol in the story. They signified pieces of living history, documents in fabric that chronicle the lives of the many generations and the struggles, such as war and poverty, which they faced. The quilts served as a testament to the family’s history of pride and trials. With the drawbacks that poverty and lack of education placed on her life, Mama sees her personal history as one of her few treasures. Her house embraces the handicrafts of her extended family. Instead of acquiring a financial inheritance from her ancestors, Mama has been given the quilts. For her, these objects have a sentimental value that Dee, despite claiming her desire to care for and preserve the quilts, is unable to fathom. Mama’s yard represents a private space free of the woes and defects that have permeated Mama’s life. The yard comes into view in the first and last sentences of the story, associating the events and bookending the action. The yard has been precisely prepared...
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...went on and on about the details of making a quilt and the details on the three pound miracle this woman had found. I personally did not like that part much. This sort of thing doesn’t interest me. It reminds me of a time when I saw my friend crochet and thought I should try it. I found out the hard way, that crochet is very difficult, and tedious. It just wasn’t my sort of hobby. I didn’t completely hate the story because it was very nice that the woman took such an interest in this quilt and who made it. I also liked when the grandmother was telling Janine about the days when the women were stuck in their homes and they started quilting to keep them from going stir crazy. I couldn’t imagine living in a place where there was no television or neighbors for miles. I also liked that there was so much love and work put into these quilts. All the history and stories behind quilts was very interesting. Before this story I never knew how quilts came to be. Personally I don’t like the design. I’m more modern. I think quilts are mostly used by older people. I don’t think that the quilt Janine found was a...
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...back to the Civil War. Dee asks her mother for the quilt, but her mother has already promised them to Maggie when she marries. Dee states that “Maggie can’t appreciate these quilts!” she said. She’d probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use” (Johnson & Thomas 153). Her mother says that she hope that Maggie does use them and how Dee didn’t want to take them when she went to college. Dee saying that they are priceless and should be hung not used (153). Mrs. Johnson see heritage as something that should be practiced everyday and used in everyday life while Dee sees heritage as art and it should be used as decoration of the family history. At the end of the story Dee states that Maggie and Mrs. Johnson don’t know their own heritage which is ironic because it’s Dee who doesn’t. Mrs. Johnson and Maggie know the traditions and history behind the quilts one because she puts her ancestor’s memories to everyday use and hopes that Maggie does the same (Gruesser...
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...February 20, 2015 Cultural Artifact Assignment Artifact: antique quilt from rural Appalachian village in West Virginia from 1890, currently on display in the Heritage Farm Museum of cultural artifacts in Huntington, West Virginia. Appalachian Quilts For this assignment I have decided to focus on quilts and their cultural and historic importance. One in particular caught my eye, which is a multi-colored antique quilt that I discovered while researching the Appalachian people of rural West Virginia. While there are many different cultural artifacts that are a part of the history of the Appalachian people, this is one that has deep roots in that often times quilts get passed down from generation to generation. It is a patchwork quilt that was first started by the grandmother of a coal miner, Leanne Thomas in 1890 who left the quilt unfinished in order for her children to add patches to it and then continue the tradition. The colors featured are cream and red. The prints used also feature yellow, blue, orange, purple, green, black, tan, and brown. It is hand-sewn with triangle pieces that are attached together with pieces of yarn. The quilt has an abstract geometric pattern that is made by altering the direction and placement of both blocks and rows. Each particular patch was said to signify an important event such as a birth or death that occurred, as well as to represent a member of the family. This specific quilt is unique because it was said to be one of the original...
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...not obey they would get beaten or whooped by their slave owners. Slaves had a hard time on the life on the plantation because they were brutally being mistreated. I will also be talking about their significance of their historical event and the issues surrounding it and the way it shaped history. During life on the plantation for slaves was not very easy because...
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...shaping American society by opening their own art galleries all over the world to show their work. They opened feminist art programs at Fresno State College and California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in early 1970. By 1974 over 1,000 United States colleges and universities offered women’s studies courses. In 1975, women started creating images of their bodies to proclaim women’s right to control and enjoy their bodies, which was the start of women’s liberation, while other women decided to dress up their painting with embroidery, knitting, quilting, and china paintings to raise consciousness and redirect modern American art. In 1940’s, women started using initials or changing their names to reflect male gender names to overcome the invisibility and inferiority of women’s history and art. Many female artist started challenging male artists for dominance in the art world. The female artists made sure their paintings reflected history, spirituality, and power....
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...film because you can view it at home rather than at a museum. 2. Faith Ringgold was the “creator” of story quilt. When she makes her quilt she uses oil on a canvas and attaches it fabric. When faith started out back when racism was going on. She tried to get her biography published but since everyone denied her she put her story on a quilt and that’s how story quilting for her. My second art is Zaha Hadid. She’s an architect. A lot of her buildings are over the top. In some of her buildings, she wasn’t always able to do everything that she wanted because her ideas couldn’t be built. Her goal is to make things airy and with lots of outside light rather than being stuffed all in. My third artist is Pablo Picasso. I have always heard of him but I never seen any of his art. He had several different styles, and lots of his painting dealt with love. Picasso is significant to history because he is often compared to Michelangelo and he brought excitement to the art world with his versatility. Another artist I learned about was Romare Bearden. I really liked him because he was all for his people. He significant to history because he encouraged African America to go out and make art. Many of his paint were...
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...and this is defined as crafting. (Craft Council, n.d. ). Basically, crafts is based on the hands of a maker. According to What is Craft? (n.d.) article, something that has been made by the hand of the product’s designer with their skill and creativity and is not manufactured is defined as crafted object. Crafts typically divided into different types of crafts according to materials that are used to create new items. Craft council (n.d.) state that there several type of craft including crafts using wood, metal and clay such as carpentry, furniture making, jewelry marquetry , sculpture, wood turning, wood burning, metalworking and chip carving. They also mention about craft using textile and some of the are weaving, sewing, needlepoint, quilting, embroidery, string art, spinning, cross-stitch, knitting, rug making, tapestry, canvas work and banner-making. Craft involve the use of plant is one of the popular crafts. Examples include floral design, basket weaving and straw marquetry. In addition to the above mentioned crafts, there is a long list of crafts that...
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...Throughout history women of all different ethnicities, races and religious beliefs have been excluded from many different decisions revolving around men. Women differing in all aspects of life have come together to share the similarities and differences regarding hardships they have faced. Some of the hardships the women faced between the settlement through the civil war was race, class, ethnicity, religion, and region. Race today is still a very relevant topic in society today. In the past, race was one of the largest controversial topics amongst the United States. For example, according to the document in the book titled, Early American Women: A Documentary History, 1600-1900 written by Nancy Woloch, skilled slaved were considered much...
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