quilts

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quilts

Dancing at the Louvre

Faith Ringgold's French collection and other story quilts
1998
Presents of overview of the art of Faith Ringgold, providing photographs of all the story quilts in her French Collection series, as well as several earlier works, including "Tar Beach"; and features essays which examine various aspects of her career.

Stitches in time

1999
When an antique quilt mysteriously appears at the shop where Rachel works, it has an ominous effect on her. The evil that appears to emanate from the quilt threatens to destroy Rachel and the people she cares about.

Gee's Bend

the architecture of the quilt
2006

The crazy quilt

1994
Tanya the bear learns about her family's quilt made of old, well-loved clothing and surprises her family with a creation of her own.

The quilting bible

1997
An illustrated, step-by-step guide to machine quilting, covering all stages from planning to caring for the finished product, providing information about tools, terms, and techniques, and featuring instructions for a variety of quilting projects.

Shota and the star quilt

1998
When Shota and her friends hear that their apartment building is being torn down, they make a quilt to show the developer how much they love their home.

Hidden in plain view

the secret story of quilts and the underground railroad
1999
Describes how African Americans made coded quilts and how they used them to escape on the underground railroad.

Bizzy Bones and the lost quilt

1988
When Bizzy loses the quilt he needs to go to sleep, Uncle Ezra and the orchard mice try to make him a new one.

Addy's wedding quilt

2001
Though her parents "jumped the broom" to get married when they were slaves, now that they are living free in Philadelphia after the Civil War they plan to have a church wedding and Addy works to complete a special quilt to give them as a wedding gift.

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