How to Make an African Quilt

How to Make an African Quilt
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Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 0615773397
ISBN-13 : 9780615773391
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Book Synopsis How to Make an African Quilt by : Bonnie Lee Black

Download or read book How to Make an African Quilt written by Bonnie Lee Black and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches of our lives? How do we stitch cultural differences, join disparate worlds, to create something both beautiful and useful? Bonnie Lee Black subtly addresses these universal questions through vivid stories of her life-changing experience living and working in the fabled city of Segou, Mali, in West Africa. At the request of a talented group of Malian seamstresses, Black taught them the craft of American patchwork quilting and spearheaded an economic development effort called the Patchwork Project. She has now created a many-layered patchwork quilt of a book that brings that time and place and all its colorful characters to life on the page. Threaded throughout is the fictional narrative of Jeneba, a slave-quilter in the antebellum American South who had been kidnapped from the Kingdom of Segou as a child, as well as the real voices of the Malian women who took part in the Patchwork Project.


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