{"id":1406,"date":"2011-11-30T21:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T21:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2023-10-06T17:21:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:21:00","slug":"why-quilts-matter-history-art-politics-reviewed-by-booklist-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/opinions\/why-quilts-matter-history-art-politics-reviewed-by-booklist-com\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &#038; Politics&#8221; Reviewed by Booklist.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a handmade quilt, you may think you know why quilts matter. But it&#8217;s a guarantee that you don&#8217;t know everything about the history and culture of quilts, as revealed in this passionate nine-part documentary.\u00a0 In the sampled <em>Empowering Women One Quilt at a Time<\/em>, host Shelly Zegart\u2014author of <em>American Quilt Collections<\/em> (1998)\u2014introduces five segments, concluding with &#8220;Taking On an Icon: One Quilt\u2019s Journey.&#8221;\u00a0 Each segment, backed by guitar and classical music, includes vintage and contemporary film clips and photographs as well as interviews with quilt makers, fabric artists, museum curators, scholars, and more.\u00a0 The experts detail how quilts became powerful vehicles of expression\u2014a &#8220;soft medium to deliver a hard message&#8221;\u2014empowering women to move from homemakers to expressive entrepreneurs.\u00a0 Other episodes include <em>Quilts Bring History Alive<\/em>, <em>The Quilt Marketplace,<\/em> and <em>Quilt Scholarship: Romance and Reality<\/em>. This colorful, well-produced, and fascinating production sees quilts &#8220;through the lenses of history, art, and politics.&#8221;\u00a0 Downloadable resource guides with thumbnail photos accompany the series.<br \/>\n<em>\u2014 Eloise Kinney<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Originally published on <a title=\"Why Quilts Matter: History, Art &amp; Politics Reviewed by Booklist.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/Why-Quilts-Matter-History-Art-Politics\/pid=5073712\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BooklistOnline.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you own a handmade quilt, you may think you know why quilts matter. But it&#8217;s a guarantee that you don&#8217;t know everything about the history and culture of quilts, as revealed in this passionate nine-part documentary.\u00a0 In the sampled Empowering Women One Quilt at a Time, host Shelly Zegart\u2014author of American Quilt Collections (1998)\u2014introduces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6604,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/6604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}