Heighten your students' awareness of how quilts have reflected and continue to reflect the lives of the people who create them, and of how quilts record the cultural history of a particular place and time. Quilting continues to be largely a home-based form of art engaged in primarily by women. The lessons in this unit are designed to help your students recognize how people of different cultures and time periods have used cloth-based art forms to pass down their traditions and history. Made by hand-often collaboratively-using familiar materials such as scraps of clothing, quilts are personal and communal, aesthetic and functional. Throughout history, women and sometimes men have used the art of quilting for many diverse purposes: to keep warm, to decorate their homes, to express their political views, to remember a loved one. From "Speaking of Quilts: Voices from the Late Twentieth Century" by Laurel Horton "We Americans have adopted quilts as a symbol of what we value about ourselves and our national history."
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