STURDY TRADITIONS with Jess Bailey
In this SEAMSIDE podcast companion zine, you’ll find deeper reflections from my conversation with Beverly Smith, as well as creative journaling and meditation prompts designed to support you in your own artistic exploration.
This zine is designed to be printed on US letter-size 8.5”x11” (216mm x 279mm) paper. If you print this on A4 paper (8-1/4” x 11-3/4” or 210mm x 297mm) you will need to trim a 1/2” (1 cm) off each short side before folding.
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Instructional how-to-fold video at: https://youtu.be/_PgJ8pHDjvc
In this episode, art historian-and-quilter Jess Bailey and I discuss:
why representation and visibility is so important in the quilting community
the power of a gifted quilt
and how to start a quilting practice even if you don’t come from a long line of quilters
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HELPFUL LINKS ♡
⤷ historic New Deal quilting bee photos
⤷ Anna's mother Ruth Higham's book, The Edge of the Land
⤷ The quilt made by the last indigenous queen of Hawaii
⤷ Get a copy of Jess’s book Many Hands Make A Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting in the US and in the UK
⤷ Listen to the oral history interview from the Quilt Alliance that Jess mentions
⤷ work by Kailani Polzak, researcher of visual constructions of race in 18th and 19th century Europe
⤷ Theme music: Roll Jordan Roll by the Joy Drops