Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond:
Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph, Thornton Dial and Lonnie Holley

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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