Quilt Arts of South Africa

Threaded Legacies

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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 quilt making from its earliest appearance in the continent's 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-05-27
Mått216 x 279 x 24 mm
Vikt1 270 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor250
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253072580

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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

"An engaging rediscovery of a key art form and practice, much of which is shrouded in, and grounded in, South Africa's political background. This is another way of rewriting history through the art practices of primarily women, in this case."—Kate Wells, author of Fabric Dyeing and Printing"This is a well-researched publication that innovatively focuses on different areas of South African history through quilt and textile art produced by local artists. A great read and a must-have for one's book collection."—Nelisiwe Mkhize, Director, William Humphreys Art Gallery"Already an eminent scholar of quilting and quilt making in several regional and ethnic communities in the United States, Dr. Marsha MacDowell has assembled a groundbreaking volume that offers never-before-seen information and perspectives about the quilt-making history, traditions, aesthetics, cultures, and artists of South Africa. Readers will find insights about the diversity and richness of South African quilting practices written by an international group of multidisciplinary scholars. As an artist scholar, it is a volume to which I will return many times."—Diana Baird N'Diaye, Creative Director, African American Craft Alliance