Just discovered the webiste, folkstreams.net - A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures. There are topical listings of documentaries on families, traditions, arts, and culture. A couple of the films were on quilt-making as a folk-art. The film, Quilts in Women's Lives, profiling three different women and their quilt-making traditions was what I wanted to share with you today. The common theme of a touchable, tactile object like fabric and the quilt making and finished product being a means to conversation, therapy and memory preservation was captured in the words of each of the women.
Here's a trailer to the film...