Quilt Arts of South Africa

Threaded Legacies

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.

Contributor: Marsha MacDowell (Edited by), Coral Bijoux (Contributions by), Elsa Brits (Contributions by), Jeni Couzyn (Contributions by), Menán du Plessis (Contributions by), Jeanette Gilks (Contributions by), Vicky Heunis (Contributions by), Sandra Kriel (Contributions by), Miems Lamprecht (Contributions by), Juliette Leeb-du Toit (Contributions by), Marsha MacDowell (Contributions by), Carolyn Mazloomi (Contributions by), Dawn Pavitt (Contributions by)

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