tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post2777264634819702825..comments2024-03-26T22:50:08.674-05:00Comments on Barbara Brackman's <br> MATERIAL CULTURE: Quilts and Traditional Jewish CultureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post-78128541178035064322021-07-01T13:41:03.873-05:002021-07-01T13:41:03.873-05:00I was looking to see if I could find examples of t...I was looking to see if I could find examples of traditional Jewish patchwork patterns, and came across this post! I'm sad there isn't much in that category, but this was a great read and I appreciate it greatly. I'm a potter and I've been looking for quilt patterns to paint on my pottery. When I can, I like to incorporate Judaism into my work, which adds more personal significance and helps me avoid appropriating designs. I don't want to be claiming designs that have meaning and importance to a culture that I don't know about/isn't mine! Thank you for all the great infoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06123770502591807107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post-46744263380366760922020-12-07T03:48:57.285-06:002020-12-07T03:48:57.285-06:00You really know your stuff... Keep up the good wor...You really know your stuff... Keep up the good work!<br /><a href="https://grey-moose.com/shop/linen-bed-skirts/" rel="nofollow">bed skirts</a><br />Steve Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10297512618951919083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post-81246538242181753712014-05-12T11:48:24.948-05:002014-05-12T11:48:24.948-05:00I have been trying to find civil war crossing jell...I have been trying to find civil war crossing jelly roll, but I have not been able to find it. Does anyone know where I can find just one jelly rollAvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08402604159825117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post-31988456719676074802014-05-02T15:21:56.563-05:002014-05-02T15:21:56.563-05:00Thank you for the interesting post. I have often ...Thank you for the interesting post. I have often wondered why my husbands maternal grandmother never made quilts. She made her living being a seamstress and she did all sorts of other handy work like knitting, embroidery and crocheting but there's no evidence she ever did patch work. She was an Ashkenazi Jew from Romania and as you say there is no quilting tradition from that part of the world. And as Nann mentioned maybe sewing all day did not leave much enrgy or interest for patchwork at night. cspoonquilthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12208734125086492218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post-19277207398043687542014-05-01T09:03:31.281-05:002014-05-01T09:03:31.281-05:00So many Jewish immigrants were in the garment trad...So many Jewish immigrants were in the garment trade -- but I suppose that since that was what they did for a living, they wouldn't want to piece and quilt scraps in what little leisure time they had. And, as you point out, their Old World origins (Eastern and Middle Europe) did not have a tradition of patchwork. Thanks for sharing the Forward article and for your explication of it.Nannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09239289676429380866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post-78837345200410535932014-04-30T14:20:27.259-05:002014-04-30T14:20:27.259-05:00What a fascinating post. As someone who grew up ...What a fascinating post. As someone who grew up in 1950's- 1960's Kansas, I would observe that only a tiny percentage of the population was Jewish then and probably even fewer before the millions of Eastern Europeans came to America between 1892-1924.<br /><br />Secondly, I'm studying a German American quiltmaker, Anna Catharine Hummel Markey Garnhart, but I don't know how she learned to make what her group called "fancy quilts", I don't think it was a German tradition, if you aren't counting the Dutch. However, the area around her home of Frederick, MD, settled by a mixture of British and German descent, was heavily into "fancy quilts" by the 1840's -- perhaps an English tradition refined by a non-quilting German decorative arts sensibility. Again in Frederick, there was not much of a Jewish presence before the Civil War so I doubt we can't make any statistical inferences.suzannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01885011551892500020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-289466493716180465.post-29589954673589892452014-04-30T10:29:16.291-05:002014-04-30T10:29:16.291-05:00Very interesting read and history about the Jewish...Very interesting read and history about the Jewish culture and quilting, along with other religions. It makes me wonder about religious groups in New England and how that influenced quilts in our area.<br /><br />DebbieWoolenSailshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08621977477193550261noreply@blogger.com