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Date Created1997-2016
DescriptionMy daughter was born in Bayonne Hospital, New Jersey July 10, 1986. She was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey. She made this in grammar school. They showed them how to hand sew it. They didn’t get...
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Date Created2002
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Date Created2014
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Date Created2010
DescriptionThis was the very first quilt I made. I hand dyed the batiks during a batik workshop conducted by Kokroko in Kumasi, Ghana in July 2010. My sister Tarsha-Nicole Taylor of Tewksbury, MA helped me...
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Date Created2016
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the notion of justice within the courts. The Ghanaian Adinkra symbol Gye Nyame which is the focal point of this quilt, means “except for God,” Gye Nyame is at the center...
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Date Created1979
DescriptionThe quilt and pillow were made for me by my mother when I went off to college.
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Date Created2016
DescriptionThis quilt is a birthday gift for my brother Solomon C. Sanders who nickname is Salmon. It is a lap quilt, since he is wheelchair bound.
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Date Created2010-2016
DescriptionQuilt top was started by my aunt (Gloria Hysaw) who lives in Denver, Colorado. She had finished most of the star portion of the quilt. She put it away because it was getting too big and she didn’t...
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Date Created2016
DescriptionThis quilt was inspired by the following articles: Bassett, Thomas J. Slim pickings: fairtrade cotton in West Africa. Geoforum 41.1 (2010): 44-55. Day, Elizabeth. The desperate plight of Africa’s...
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Date Created2016
DescriptionI really wanted to make a feathered star and this quilt is my first. It is also my first attempt at paper-piecing which I used to create the star. The Ghanaian Adinkra symbol Sankofa is the focal...