Word: quilter
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...family had been taught an oral history that stated that quilt patterns - like log cabins, monkey wrenches and wagon wheels - also served as directions that helped slaves plan their escapes. Since she lacked historical data to back up Williams' claim, Tobin enlisted her friend Raymond Dobard, a quilter and art history professor affiliated with Howard University, to help research and write the book, which is now in its sixth printing and has sold over 200,000 copies. "It's frustrating to be attacked and not allowed to celebrate this amazing oral story of one family's experience," says Tobin. "Whether...
...exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. I heard there was going to be a discussion about the quilts from Gee’s Bend and I decided to hear what was going to be said,” said Joanne Cornell, a local quilter and artist...
Jane H. Van Cleef ’06 learned to sew at her parents’ knees—her mother made bean bags, her father was a quilter. By high school, she had several catalogues and prom dresses to her name. Harvard has benefited from her skills via the stage: last year, she was praised for her work on Richard III and Cabaret, and she’s at work on the costumes for this fall’s Faust. She makes almost everything she wears...
...durable coverlets remain as records of folk art in America, quaint but serious documents of the attitudes of a growing nation. Tucked away in the rural U.S. (as well as among urban hobbyists) nimble-thimbled women who follow historic patterns still exist, but the qualities that make a good quilter are hard to come by in modern times. Explains one mistress of the art: "It demands steady nerves, a pleasant temperament, equal dexterity with either hand, an inborn sense of line and form, Job's patience and time galore...
...outbreak of World War I he joined the Naval Division, and thinking that he would probably get killed, married Gwen Quilter. This, he reasoned, gave him as much happiness as he deserved, and her a reasonable chance of escape. And he very nearly did get killed in Gallipoli by the worst of deaths, dysentery. He recorded this campaign in his lightest verse, laffing at his miseries and terrors...