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Blanket America: Bringing Back an American Tradition
When our ancestors crossed the oceans to reach the new land, they brought with them not just their families and a few meager possessions. They brought with them their own unique languages, styles and traditions. One tradition nearly every woman from every country brought with her was her own unique quilting pattern, fabric and color preferences. Eventually those traditions, patterns and preferences melded together and evolved into a truly American style of quilt called patchwork.
Soon, commemorative patchwork quilts became a new tradition. Major life events, such as engagements, were memorialized with quilts. With westward expansion came the advent of the state quilt. Political affiliations, union preferences and even wars were memorialized through statement blankets. Before women's suffrage gave women the right to vote in elections, their preferences were stated through fabric, needle and thread.
Through high times and low times, our nation's history can be tracked through quilts. During war time, patchwork colors tended to be duller and fabric quality lower. During times of peace and prosperity fabrics were brighter, patterns more intricate, quality of fabrics higher and richer and variety of fabrics greater. During the Roaring 20's fine linen and silks were used to make crazy quilts.
When the Great Depression stuck ten years later, old flour sacks became the only fabrics available for making quilts. During political strife, strong statements were made. When labor unions became legal in the United States, many women made use of red, white and blue fabrics to show their support. During times of war nearly all women used red, white and blue fabrics when they were available in order to show their patriotic pride, appreciation and support of our troops. Today that tradition is no different.
The Patchwork Heritage quilt brings back many old American traditions from bygone eras. The face of the quilt is comprised of 13 different fabrics in hues of red, white and blue which represent our 13 original colonies. The reverse of the quilt is a subdued creamy beige color and features lady liberty standing proudly in the background. President Barak Obama's inaugural address is printed on the foreground, with the now famous words "we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness" highlighted prominently. The Patchwork Heritage quilt benefits charity through a buy one, give one program. To learn more, visit patchwork.
The Patchwork Heritage quilt is bringing back an old American tradition of commemorative quilting. Blanket America is a new charitable organization who is implementing an innovative new concept of giving: buy one, give one.
About the Author
Blanket America is about more than blankets. It is about changing the way charity and business works. For every quilt sold, Blanket America will donate a blanket to an American in need.
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The Countryside in Colonial Latin America $3.95 The first overview of rural life in colonial Latin America. |
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Colonial America Map, 1733 $19.99 Colonial America Map, 1733 - Giclee Print |
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Map: Colonial America, $19.99 Jodocus Hondius Map: Colonial America, - Giclee Print |
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Town Meeting Arguments in Colonial America $39.99 Town Meeting Arguments in Colonial America - Giclee Print |
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Ship-Building in Colonial North America $39.99 Ship-Building in Colonial North America - Giclee Print |
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Colonial America $49.95 Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies. Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated chapters on families and women Features enhanced coverage of the English colony of Barbados and trans-Atlantic influences on colonial development Provides a greater focus on the perspectives of Native Americans and their influences in shaping the development of the colonies |
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Colonial America Jingo $19.53 Colonial America JINGOA BINGO style game that is a motivating way to learn fascinating facts and reinforce basic concepts.For grades 4-8 |
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The Human Tradition in Colonial America $3.94 The Human Tradition in Colonial America is an entertaining as well an enlightening book that brings the colonial period to life through the stories of the colorful participants who helped mold the British dependency that would eventually become the United States. |
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The Church in Colonial Latin America $5.96 The Church in Colonial Latin America is a collection of essays that include classic articles and pieces based on more modern research. Containing essays that explore the Catholic Church's active social and political influence, this volume provides the background necessary for students to grasp the importance of the Catholic Church in Latin America. This text also presents a comprehensive, analytic, and descriptive history of the Church and its development during the colonial period. From the evangelization of the New World by Spanish missionaries to the active influence of the Catholic Church on Latin American culture, this book offers a complete picture of the Church in colonial Latin America. The Church in Colonial Latin America is ideal for courses in the colonial period in Latin American history, as well as courses in religion, church history, and missionary history. |
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A Companion to Colonial America $209.95 A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits. Coverage includes politics, religion, migration, gender, ecology, and many others. |
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Spotlight On America: Colonial America $12.99 Make history come alive in your classroom! The Spotlight on America series is designed to introduce students to some of the important historical figures and events in American history. Each title in this series includes a balanced variety of activities in reading, language arts, social studies, and science.The activities in this book include:Writing lettersKeeping journalsWriting a "How To" essayReaders' TheaterUsing maps and timelinesHolding a classroom Colonial Day |
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Colonial Buildings, Antigua, Guatemala, Central America $24.99 Sergio Pitamitz Colonial Buildings, Antigua, Guatemala, Central America - Photographic Print |
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Colonial Architecture, Antigua, Guatemala, Central America $24.99 Wendy Connett Colonial Architecture, Antigua, Guatemala, Central America - Photographic Print |
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Colorful Colonial Architecture, Granada, Nicaragua, Central America $19.99 Colorful Colonial Architecture, Granada, Nicaragua, Central America - Photographic Print |
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Map of Colonial New Sweden in America, c.1638-1685 $39.99 Map of Colonial New Sweden in America, c.1638-1685 - Giclee Print |
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Grandmother Teaching a Child to Read in Colonial America $39.99 Grandmother Teaching a Child to Read in Colonial America - Giclee Print |
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Couple in a Dry-Goods Shop in Colonial America $39.99 Couple in a Dry-Goods Shop in Colonial America - Giclee Print |
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Lotteries in Colonial America $125 Lotteries in Colonial America explores lotteries in England and the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. From the founding of Jamestown to the financing of the American Revolution, lotteries played an important role in the economic life of the colonies. Lotteries provided an alternative form of raising money for colonial governments and a means of subsidizing public and private projects without enacting new taxes. The book also describes and analyzes the role of lotteries in the eighteenth-century consumer revolution, which transformed how buyers viewed the goods they purchased, or in the case of lotteries, won. As the middling classes in the colonies began to acquire objects that went beyond mere necessities, lotteries gave colonists an opportunity to risk a small sum in the hopes of gaining riches or valuable goods. Finally, the book examines how lotteries played a role in the changing notions of fortune in colonial America. Religion and chance were present in colonial lotteries as participants merged their own free will to purchase a lottery ticket with the will of the Christian God to select a winner. |
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Money and Finance in Colonial America $4.19 From Native American wampum to a "pine tree shilling" from colonial Massachusetts, students get a fascinating look at the development of currency in colonial America. Trade, taxes, early banks, and bankers are illustrated with vivid primary-source imagery and documents. From the cover of a Stamp Act register to announcements of new British-imposed taxes, students get an insight into the dollars and cents of life in the American colonies as the foundations of trade, commerce, and banking were being laid. |