Quilters are weaving personal histories of the Black experience: 'We're a people with a lot of stories to tell'
In the hands of Lesyslie Rackard and her sewing sisters, quilts talk. Listen to this story told by The Laundress, a quilt Rackard dedicated to her Auntie Maggie Bell Rackard, a domestic worker who migrated in the early 1940s from Daytona Beach, Florida, to Poughkeepsie, New York. Immortalized in fabric, her aunt stands at the ironing board, wearing a blue dress pieced from a scrap of her favorite house dress. Next to her is a laundry basket and washboard, honoring Lesyslieâs mother, also a domestic worker. Two quilts within the quilt tell more of the story: One, on the wall, depicts the ...
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