Quilts from the Underground Railroad, part 2
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2013
- Eleanor Burns continues the story, showing antique quilts that represent the secret code. She leads you into construction of the same quilts using new reproduction fabric.
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Thank you so much for this wonderful history lesson. School children today need to learn true history of what the slaves went through to reach freedom. You are such a wonderful story teller and so appreciate your videos.
Amazing. Best video on explaining the meaning of these symbolic quilts. Beautiful history soaked in the blood of black martyrs. They've all gone home to Jesus.
This is such a lovely series. Thank you for bringing the history to life :-)
Thank you for kindly, and bravely showing us this subject. I'm starting my sampler using Liberty fabric scraps. I love your books and smart tips💖
Thank you for the history story. 🙂
Thank you so much for this series! I didn't realize that there were codes for the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad came through the town I was born and raised in. ... It is go wonderful to have found your tutorial.
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You must have a painting in your attic. I cannot believe how wonderful you look. I knew you in the late 80s and you have not changed at all!
Inspiring to sew fabric for a quilt! i really y like how to make the blocks and how each design made may be switch to make another. the presentation was part oral history weave into authentic representation or reproduction also how to construct quilt blocks for your own I liked that !!
Wonderful historical story! Thank you for doing this!
This was so interesting. Not far from Levi Coffin house. I take it for granted I guess. This made it more real.
The designs on the quilts, like the African Metaphysical Science it was based upon, had several levels of meaning. The Exoteric (mundane, simplistic and superficial view of the 'masses'); Esoteric (deeper Mind-Body-Spirit Knowledge of particular socio-political and cultural elements, like griots, healers, Blacksmiths, etc) and the Occult (secret, transformative Wisdom that is transmitted from mentor to initiate). One could find not only direction within the North Star design; it also transmitted an emotional connection that could bring Spiritual refreshment, or even enlightenment, to the emotionally weary and disillusioned. Or convey the entire Life experience of the quilter; therefore identifying family or significant relationship for a traveler on the 'underground railroad'. The vestiges of this way of perceiving the World is still ingrained within the progeny of those ancestors. Those from the African Diaspora have a very particular way of communicating through rhythm which, for us, is not differentiated from visual patterns or expressed in the body with particular dance movements. That is why you will find the women singing specific songs while quilting and then celebrate the dedication of a quilt with dance: Genetic Memory.
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All that information and we never knew it. Now you are out of the corner where you were hiding this information and you want to butt in on Eleanor's story telling and quilting to bring the story to life. My respect for her. I learned a lot from her.
Hermosos trabajos , sería muy bueno que las medidas de las piezas aparecieran subtituladas para las personas que no hablamos inglés. Gracias
I have heard it said that these type quilts are a myth, but now I am beginning to believe that they are not.
Thank you for the video to compliment my family legacy. I hope that you can visit my gallery where I have the quilts passed down from Nora Bell McDaniel Ozella's mother to my Great Aunt Ozella & my Grandmother Mary Eva her sister to my mother Serena Strother Wilson to me. I have the quilts and the copyrights from Ozella (1950) to my mother & I prior to the book Hidden in Plain View by Jacquelyn Tobin & Raymond Dobard.
I hope to give you a copy of my book, "Keeper of the Fire". It has the photos that show our textiles with each of the patterns cut into the bodies of the people who created this textile language and brought the patterns on their bodies to America.
I know it's kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good site to stream newly released tv shows online ?
@Kannon Moshe Try Flixzone. Just google for it :)
@Kannon Moshe I use flixzone. You can find it on google =)
Eleanor red is your color. Linda
This is fun but so many people now believe this is true. You should have made a disclaimer that it is conjecture
She repeatedly said it's from oral history and it's not proven to be fact
Trust someone to make a correction of something that they never attempted to do. Eleanor did a wonderful job of being a wonderful story teller. Did you with your knowledge share for our knowledge. Take a page from her book and learn how to share.
@@murielbarry3766 good point thats what I did for sure shared my knowledge. She was a good story teller
Most of our history is passed down from person to person! Just because you don't find a written history (since most of the lower class and slaves were uneducated), how can you say it is not true. It is even more true because it was "personal", passed down from generation to generation to be sure it wasn't forgotten. It's real, just like the holocaust and Darfur! Wake up to the real world!
@@aprilbaxter2578 you realize how long it would take to make a quilt by hand. With a error . Do you not think that a system like that would not have been wide spread. That would be a dangerous system. If someone had a quilt out on a line it could be misunderstood and someone could be caught or killed.
One woman that made quilts said she heard it. She was selling quilts at a market. A fiction writer and his wife said they met her and she told them stories.
When people questioned them and wanted to talk to her... she magically disappeared