Comments on: African American Quilters as Historians pt 2 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=50 Women and gender queer of color ISSUES have been done to death, we want OUR LIVES*** (Lisa Factora-B) Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: susurro http://www.raveneye.org/?p=50&cpage=1#comment-44 susurro Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:44:42 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=50#comment-44 Please don't approve that second comment as the info has changed, these women predate the time period of my post and I won't actually be changing the text after all. Please don’t approve that second comment as the info has changed, these women predate the time period of my post and I won’t actually be changing the text after all.

]]> By: susurro http://www.raveneye.org/?p=50&cpage=1#comment-42 susurro Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:37:55 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=50#comment-42 I left a more extensive comment on my blog to your comment there, but I just wanted to say here that I did 2 posts, the first one addresses Africa and slavery and this one post-slavery, and there is a third planned. In that first one, I explain some of the decision making in who I chose and why. The statement you are objecting to is a quote (hence why it is in quotations) and comes from the works cited as well as some of the quiltmakers interviewed for the third installment. I did not say it. And I hope the two posts taken together show that I was not claiming she was the first to put needle to fabric. I appreciate you bringing up other quilters here, I'd asked who you thought should have been included at my site. If you don't mind, I'd like to put these same links there. I left a more extensive comment on my blog to your comment there, but I just wanted to say here that I did 2 posts, the first one addresses Africa and slavery and this one post-slavery, and there is a third planned. In that first one, I explain some of the decision making in who I chose and why.

The statement you are objecting to is a quote (hence why it is in quotations) and comes from the works cited as well as some of the quiltmakers interviewed for the third installment. I did not say it. And I hope the two posts taken together show that I was not claiming she was the first to put needle to fabric.

I appreciate you bringing up other quilters here, I’d asked who you thought should have been included at my site. If you don’t mind, I’d like to put these same links there.

]]> By: Ellid http://www.raveneye.org/?p=50&cpage=1#comment-34 Ellid Mon, 06 Apr 2009 03:52:23 +0000 http://www.raveneye.org/?p=50#comment-34 Harriet Powers was, unfortunately, not the first documented African-American quilter. Not even close. She was a marvelous and original artist who deserves her fame, but the first known African-American quilter may be <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/quilt/kadella.html" rel="nofollow">Kadella, who made the quilter attributed to her around 1810</a>, almost twenty years before Harriet Powers was even born. Another African-American quilter who was active before Powers was <a href="http://www.historyofquilts.com/keckly.html" rel="nofollow">Elizabeth Keckley,</a> Mary Todd Lincoln's dressmaker, who stitched a marvelous quilt from Mrs. Lincoln's old ballgowns. There were plenty of others, many documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807849952/patchesofpast-20" rel="nofollow">Stitched from the Soul.</a> Harriet Powers was, unfortunately, not the first documented African-American quilter. Not even close. She was a marvelous and original artist who deserves her fame, but the first known African-American quilter may be Kadella, who made the quilter attributed to her around 1810, almost twenty years before Harriet Powers was even born. Another African-American quilter who was active before Powers was Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln’s dressmaker, who stitched a marvelous quilt from Mrs. Lincoln’s old ballgowns. There were plenty of others, many documented in Stitched from the Soul.

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