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In the southernmost region of the African continent, women have been piecing together materials-textile construction techniques commonly used in quilting- to create bed coverings throughout the history of the San and Khoi peoples. From the late seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century, an influx of Dutch, French, Indian, and British military personnel, traders, miners, and missionaries came to South Africa, bringing with them their own cultural traditions, including making and using quilts. Today, the making of quilts in South Africa is flourishing.
Quilt Arts of South Africa stitches together the history, production, and significance of quiltmaking as material culture in South Africa from its earliest appearance in the southernmost region to the twenty-first century. With input from curators, linguists, art historians, activist artists, and folklorists, this book presents disparate yet connected inquiries into a wide-ranging history of the quilt. These perspectives connect a rich expressive art to place, showing how the quilting traditions in South Africa together reflect a unique cultural history and natural landscape.
Itself pieced together from diverse voices, Quilt Arts of South Africa offers glimpses into the histories and meanings of quilting in South Africa.
Marsha MacDowell is Professor of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University, Curator at the Michigan State University Museum, and Director of the Quilt Index (www.quiltindex.org). She has authored many publications on traditional material culture and quiltmaking, including Quilts and Health.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe Border: Piecing Together a History of Quilts and Related Textiles in South Africa, by Marsha MacDowell1. Traditional bedding and blanket-cloaks of the indigenous people of South Africa, by Menán du Plessis2. South African Kappies, by Vicky Heunis3. The Heritage Quilt: The Anglo-Boer War Women's History Quilt, by Vicky Heunis4. The Boer War Quilt: Discovering History Through Studying a Textile, by Michael Walwyn5. Isishweshwe: A Blueprint Fabric in Southern Africa, by Juliette Leeb-du Toit6. Potchefstroom: A Regional Center of South African Quilt History, by Miems Lamprecht7. The South African Quilters' Guild, by Elsa Brits8. Fibreworks: A South African Textile Artist Organization, by Jeanette Gilks9. Zamani Quilters of Soweto, by Marsha MacDowell10. A Lone Star in Africa, by Dawn Pavitt11. The Empowering Stitch, by Sandra Kriel12. Amazwi Abesifazane-Voices of Women: A Textile History Collection, by Coral Bijoux13. South Africa, AIDS, and Quilts, by Marsha MacDowell14. The Keiskamma Guernica, by Brenda Schmahmann15. The Tapestries of the Bushman Heritage Museum, Nieu Bethesda, by Jeni Couzyn and artists from the Bushman Heritage Museum, Nieu Bethesda16. Defining a South African Quilt Aesthetic, by Marsha MacDowell17. Common Ground, Building Bridges: The Women of Color Quilters Network and South African Quilt Artists, by Marsha MacDowell, Carolyn Mazloomi, and Patricia Turner18. The Quilt Index: South African Quilt History, Preservation, and Access, by Marsha MacDowellBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex
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