GLOSSARY
Asymmetry: Not displaying symmetry; uneven
or irregular.
Folkloric: Related to folklore-
the traditional beliefs, myths, tales, and practices
of a people.
Geometric: Using straight lines
and simple shapes, for example, circles or squares.
Interview: A meeting during which
somebody is asked questions, for example, by a prospective
employer, a journalist, or a researcher.
Narrative: Consisting of or characterized
by the telling of a story.
Pattern: A repeated decorative
design.
Quilt: A bed cover made of two
layers of fabric stitched together, with interior
padding of cotton or feathers held in place by decorative
intersecting seams.
Symmetry: The property of being
the same or corresponding on both sides of a central
dividing line; harmony or beauty of form that results
from balanced proportions.
Texture: The feel and appearance
of a surface, especially how rough or smooth it is.
Tradition: A long-established
custom or belief, often one that has been handed down
from generation to generation.
Bibliography
Adult Books
Dial. New York: Harry N. Abrams,
2002.
Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the
Quilt. Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2006.
Gee's Bend: The Women and Their Quilts.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2002.
Lonnie Holley: Do We think Too Much?
I Don't Think We Can Ever Stop. Alabama: Birmingham
Museum of Art, 2004.
Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts
and Beyond. Atlanta: Tinwood Books in Association
with the Austin Museum of Art, 2002.
The Quilts of Gee's Bend. Atlanta:
Tinwood Books, in Association with the Austin Museum
of Art, 2002.
Souls Grown Deep, Vols. 1 & 2.
African American Vernacular Art of the South.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2000.
Thornton Dial in the 201st Century.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books in Association with the Museum
of Fine arts, Houston, 2005.
Children's Books
Flournoy, Valerie. The Patchwork
Quilt. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers,
1985.
Johnson, James Weldon. Lift Every
Voice and Sing. New York: Walker Publishing Co.
1993.
Stroud, Bettye & Erin Susanna Bennett.
The Patchwork Path, A Quilt Map to Freedom. Cambridge,
MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.
Winter, Jeanette. Follow the Drinking
Gourd. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
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