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Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Quilt/Textile Maps
A "map quilt" is a quilt design that uses fabric to create a visual representation of a map, such as a city, a country, or the world. These quilts can be either simple, using basic shapes, or intricate, with detailed imagery and textures. They can be used as art pieces, wall hangings, or traditional quilts. Map quilts depict geographical areas, similar to traditional maps, but using fabric instead of paper. Quilts are made using various fabrics, colors, and textures to create the map's features, like land, water, roads, and cities. Map quilts can be functional (bed covers) or decorative (wall hangings), and they can be used as a creative outlet or to represent personal or cultural significance. From Google AI.

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Quilt/Textile Maps
Native Women's Trail of Tears (Barn Quilt Trail)
We thank the Longwood’s Barn Quilt Trail for the invitation to tell the story of First Nation women and families during the War of 1812. Drawing on traditional knowledge, quilters representing Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Lenape nations, have created 31 beautiful quilt block designs to capture the spirit, courage and resilience of women facing incredible dangers and uncertain futures at the turn of the 19th century.

https://barnquilttrails.ca/trails/native-womens-trail-tears/

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Quilt/Textile Maps
Legend (quilt code) from:
Stroud, Bettye., & Bennett, Erin Susanne. (2005). The patchwork path : a quilt map to freedom. Candlewick Press.

Page reads:

Soon after Master sold my sister, Mary, to a far-off plantation, Mama passed away. Papa said it was her heart that broke. Sometimes, when I missed Mama and Mary so hard and my own heart was close to splitting, I remembered Mama's words:

The monkey wrench
turns the wagon wheel
toward Canada on a bear's paw trail
to the crossroads.
Once they got to the crossroads,
they dug a log cabin on the ground.
Shoofly told them to dress up in cotton
and satin bow ties and go to
the cathedral church, get married, and exchange double rings.
Flying geese stay on
the drunkard's path and
follow the stars.

That was the quilt code

The Patchwork Path A Quilt Map to Freedom. Read aloud by K.A. Mason as part of a firstie's art project. Posted on YouTube in 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4r-LEutmLk

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