QuiltSpeak

Download or read book QuiltSpeak written by Diana Bell-Kite and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quilts can serve as portals into their makers' lives, gateways that connect past and present. Examples from the North Carolina Museum of History's quilt collection-which spans over two centuries-reveal voices from the past, specifically women's voices. They speak of skill and power. They speak of economy and ingenuity. They speak of memory and forgetting. Some of these voices have long been silenced by social constraints, racial oppression, illiteracy, and exhaustion. But by knowing how to listen, contemporary observers can uncover these voices and access the experiences of people whose lives skirted the periphery of written history.