Quilt Essays

  • Quilts In The 1800s

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    European settlers arrived in the New World. A quilt is a sandwich type cloth with a layers of fabric, padding, you sew two or more materials together. The word “quilt” comes from the latin word “culcita” which means stuffed sack, According to Johnson “but it came into the English language from the French word cuilte.” (Johnson, 2016). Quilting can be traced back to ancient egypt and china, later in the eleventh century and in the eighteenth century. Quilts were first brought to the American colonies

  • How To Clean A Quilt

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    Quilts and linens should be treated delicately if you want them to remain in excellent condition. A handmade quilt and some linens are often expensive. You might even have the ones your grandmother made. Whether they are heirlooms or brand-new always handle them with care. Most of the time quilts and linens will suffer extensive damage due to the owner's lack of knowledge on how to take care of the item. The most common forms of damage include staining, creasing and fabric deterioration. Exposure

  • Grandmother’s Quilt (Grandpa's Love)

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    Grandmother’s Quilt The inside of my body resembles that of a sieve. The biggest whole is buried deep beneath my aching soul. The rhythm of my heart seems to skip a beat with each breath that my lungs consume. As I stand at the front of the church entrance, I can feel the weight of my body shift from side to side. At any moment my legs may give way and buckle beneath my emotionally tired body. The warmth of the bodies from the room brushes past my face sending a flash of heat down my spinal

  • Missouri Star Quilt Company

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    Missouri Star Quilt Company is the largest quilt store in the world and ships fabric orders all around the globe. This family owned company is located in Hamilton, Missouri and has grown to its size thanks to not preparing for retirement. The company has an impact on many people and businesses in their community. The matriarch of the owning family, Jenny Doan, has grown into an internet star for her weekly quilting tutorials on YouTube. Jenny and her family were living in California, where she

  • Symbolism Of An Unfinished Quilt In Trifles By Susan Glaspell

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    irony of an unfinished quilt, the women believe it is symbolic for Mrs. Wright’s complex character, while the men view it as nothing more than a trifle. Paying attention to detail is what allows the audience to form their own opinion on what they believe is significant. The unfinished quilt in this play is referenced to more than any other “trifle” in this play. This is due to the fact it is an artifact that both men and women find useful. The women in this play relate to the quilt in a maternal sense

  • The Meaning And Value Of The Quilts In Everyday Use By Alice Walker

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    and the quilts shows the distinction of how one can interpret their heritage. As told in the story, it is known that dee is far more educated than mama and Maggie. Mama was denied an education but made sure that dee had an education. Dees education is the reason for her constructing herself a new heritage. Her education is the reason why she is uneducated about her heritage. It has separated dee from her true heritage because she was away from her family and couldn’t get family

  • Slave Quilts In J. A. Tobin's Hidden In Plain View

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    slave quilts helped slaves obtain freedom. The book details how each quilt square has a symbol. Consequently, each symbol also had a meaning when combined in a quilt provided a map to freedom. In the book, it states that the history of the slave quilts was passed down from mothers to daughters. These quilts assisted the slaves, showing them what they should and shouldn’t do as they journeyed to the Underground Railroad and freedom (J. a. Tobin). These quilts are now known as the freedom quilts, or

  • The AIDS Quilt: Another Dimension

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    The AIDS Quilt: Another Dimension "Jones originally envisioned the AIDS quilt as a message that would call upon the conscience of the nation." (Sturken 186) "The AIDS quilt raises the question of the purpose of mourning. For whom do we mourn when we mourn? The foregrounding of the needs of the living and the creation of a community through the quilt point to mourning not simply as a process for remembering the dead and marking the meaning and value of their lives but also an attempt to create

  • Love In Anne Rinaldi's The Coffin Quilt

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    Harmon McCoy was killed by Anse Hatfield, over the ownership over pigs and sow. Ever since that day hatred arose between both families and within their own families as well. When love was found, it caused more damage than good. Within “The Coffin Quilt” written by Anne Rinaldi, not only is hatred portrayed, but also, love proves to be another destructive force and intensifies the conflict. First, Roseanna and Fanny McCoy had a very close relationship. Fanny admired Roseanna more than her other

  • Analysis of Patches: Quilt and Community in Alice Walker's Everyday Use

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    Analysis of Patches: Quilt and Community in Alice Walker's Everyday Use In a critique titled “Patches: Quilt and Community in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’” (Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers, 1990), the authors reveal that tradition and the explanation of holiness were key elements throughout the story. The writers began the analysis by discussing the significance of a quilt; a quilt is a complete piece of artwork that is essentially made up

  • Whitney Otto's How to Make an American Quilt and Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It

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    Whitney Otto's How to Make an American Quilt and Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It Many times when I write it is difficult to locate a general theme, or even a clear and precise point. Too often, my papers seem to deviate from the intentional purpose stated in the introduction. The topic and primary idea need to be effectively introduced at the beginning so that the reader knows what to look for and what to expect. Many times, my writing consists of a solid introduction with a good idea

  • Valuing and Understanding One’s Heritage Article Summary

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    teaching them of the importance of their identities and ancestry. Maggie agrees with her mama on the importance of her heritage. Maggie sees the importance of taking the time to learn how to do the simple things in life such as learning to make a quilt. Dee, on the other hand, has no time for non-sense things. The author goes on to state Maggie is uneasy about seeing her sister. She shows some infirmity and Dee intimidates her. Maggie sees her sister with admiration and resentment. Maggie is homely

  • Alice Walker's Everyday Use

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    who stays back with her roots and makes the most out of the surroundings that she has been placed in. Through the use of symbolism, the tangible object of a family heirloom quilt brings out these issues relating to heritage to Mama, and she is able to reasonably decide which of her daughters has a real appreciation for the quilt, and can pass it on to her. Dee and Maggie shed a new light on the actual meaning of heritage through their personality traits, lifestyle decisions, and relationships with

  • What Heritage Really Means and What it May be Portrayed As

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    Use,” there is symbolism in the quilts, the handicrafts, and the change in Dee’s name and new appearance. In “Everyday Use,” the quilts play an important role in depicting symbolism of heritage because they signified Dee’s family origins. For instance, Dees’ Grandma Dee, Grandpa Jarrell, and Grandpa Ezra all have pieces of their fabric sowed on to the quilt as a remembrance of who they were and their importance in the family. Nevertheless, she does not see the quilts as valuable, hand-made, pieces

  • Isolation In Minnie Wright's Isolation

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    Minnie Wright was isolated from almost everyone throughout the course of her marriage. The main time Minnie was isolated is during the day while her husband was working. “‘Not having children makes less work,’ mused Mrs. Hale, after a silence, ‘but it makes a quiet house-and Wright out to work all day’” (Glaspell 511). Being the only person ever inside of a house is very lonely, and it was rare for a woman to ever even leave the house. “Furthermore, [John] refuses to have a telephone; and, as we

  • Philosophy of Education

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    among educators, and it should be the goal of aspiring teachers to analyze themselves to become the best teachers as possible. Imagine a patchwork quilt full of variation in size, color, texture, and detail in every different piece. This picture is what surfaces in my mind when I think of the nature of students in today’s world. If the quilt represents a classroom, each piece represents a student with different inter-weavings, but similar ties among themselves. My job, as teacher, is to recognize

  • Maggie's Everyday Use

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    of giving her daughter, Maggie, the family quilts. Dee (Wangero), her older sister was qualified for the quilts as well, but in my opinion Maggie is more deserving. Throughout the story, the differences between the narrator’s two daughters are shown in different ways. The older daughter, Dee (Wangero), is educated and outgoing, whereas Maggie is shy and a homebody. I agree with the narrator’s decision because of Maggie’s good intentions for the quilts and her innocent behavior. In my opinion

  • Symbolism used in Everyday Use by Alice Walker

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    to take family heirlooms with her. Dee could careless that Mama and Maggie use most of the items on a daily basis that she wants to bring with her. The quilts which are the bond between the women of the family and living history means nothing to Dee as she just wants to hang them on the wall, Mama Johnson makes a wise decision and gives the quilt to Maggie the true representation. Dee isn’t very fond of the decision and leaves with a bang. Telling her mama “you just don’t understand,”…“what don’t

  • A Stitch in Time

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    Quilting has different meanings for different people, but all quilts have a unique appearance and tradition. “What makes art is its life – pulsing and shining with the energy and intentions of its creator. The art of quilting glows with a respect for all generations that have come before – putting thread, needle, and cloth together with vision and love” (Wilson 7). Starting out in antiquity as a necessity and a work of art, quilting has changed over time, but it is still practiced in a myriad

  • Dee Versus Maggie: A Struggle For Self-Understanding

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    share a central theme. Alice Walker uses something as simple as a quilt to develop the central theme. This theme is that both daughters, Dee and Maggie, are confused about the meaning of their heritage. However, Dee's confusion is a result of her not wanting to acc... ... middle of paper ... ...is a symbol of the past, but only in a sense that she must move on and never look back. On the other hand, Maggie sees the quilt as something she could use everyday in order to relive the ways of her