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Honey Cone is an American R&B and soul girl group. Originally formed by lead singer Edna Wright (sister of Darlene Love) with Carolyn Willis and Shelly Clark in 1968. They are known for their number-one Billboard Hot 100 single, "Want Ads".
The Women of Color Quilters Network (WCQN) was founded in 1986 by Carolyn L. Mazloomi. For many years in the early 1980s, Mazloomi had tried unsuccessfully to expand her circle of African American quilters. She eventually placed an advertisement in Quilter's Newsletter Magazine requesting correspondence with other quilters who shared this ...
The Quilters' Guild Museum Collection, which opened in St Anthony's Hall, York, on 7 June 2008 but closed on 31 October 2015, was Britain's first museum dedicated to the history of British quilt making and textile arts. The museum was founded and operated by the Quilters' Guild of the British Isles. The guild was formed in 1979 and is the ...
She is a member of the Women of Color Quilters Network. [3] In 2009, her quilt From Vision to Victory, celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama, was exhibited at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. [4] Her 2020 quilt Cracked Justice uses a multi-media approach to illustrate the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis.
Carolyn L. Mazloomi (née Carolyn Louise Stewart; [1] born August 22, 1948) [1] is an American curator, quilter, author, art historian, and aerospace engineer.She is a strong advocate for presenting and documenting African-American-made quilts.
The Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum, is located in Carrollton, Georgia. The Southeastern Quilt & Textile Museum (SQTM), is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization committed to education and presentation of quilts and textiles. The SQTM collects, exhibits, preserves, promotes and interprets the heritage, art and production of quilting and ...
The song "Get Closer" features the vocals of Carolyn Willis, who had been in the group Honey Cone. "Sweet Green Fields" was sampled in the 1997 song "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" by Busta Rhymes. It was also sampled in 2002 by Syleena Johnson on "Tonight I'm Gonna Let Go" which was based on "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See".
Design for a hand woodblock printed textile, showing the complexity of the blocks used to make repeating patterns in the later 19th century. Tulip and Willow by William Morris, 1873. Woodblock printing on textiles is the process of printing patterns on fabrics , typically linen , cotton , or silk , by means of carved wooden blocks.