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Synopsis
A cultural milestone.
Canada is home to immigrants from every nation in the world. Quilting artist Esther Bryan wanted to celebrate this fact, to promote a sense of greater belonging among these diverse groups. A quilt would be a collaborative, community-based project to celebrate cultural diversity.
Each cultural group contributed one 11-inch square pieced into a giant quilt named the Quilt of Belonging. The quilt is approximately 120 feet long by 10 feet high (36 m by 3.5 m). It consists of 263 squares representing 71 Aboriginal groups and 192 immigrant nationalities found in Canada.
The quilt includes fabric that has been appliqued, beaded, cross-stitched, embroidered, and hand-woven. The many cultural decorations include:
- Abalone shells
- Lithuanian amber
- Bobbin lace
- A brooch from Poland
- English wool
- Kente cloth from Ghana
- Porcupine quills, rabbit fur, sealskin, and smoked caribou hide
- 200-year-old German linen
- Worry dolls from Guatemala.
The Quilt of Belonging will be exhibited in spring 2005 with an opening show at Canada's Museum of Civilization and then will become part of a traveling exhibit of stitches and stories that visits museums and community centers throughout Canada and beyond.
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The Quilt of Belonging will be exhibited in spring 2005 with an opening show at Canada's Museum of Civilization and then will become part of a traveling exhibit of stitches and stories that visits museums and community centers throughout Canada and beyond.
About the Author
Esther Bryan was born in France to an American mother and a Slovakian father and is herself an immigrant. A noted quilting artist, she lives in Williamstown, Ontario.
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- PublisherBoston Mills Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1550464353
- ISBN 13 9781550464351
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages296
- EditorBryan Esther
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