Update from The House of Plague, Day 84

[elisi]

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thread of petitions that still haven’t reached their goals:

— liv (@chewsbaccas) June 7, 2020

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Pictorial Quilt (1898) by Harriet Powers, African-American quilt artist from rural Georgia who was enslaved from birth and later freed and whose work was considered some of the finest examples of 19th century Southern US quilting (x):

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Hahaha, OMG so true that meme.

[elisi]

IKR? To be fair, we don't need Jacinda. Just... someone, ANYONE better than what we've got.

[eve11]

wow that quilt is amazing!

[elisi]

Isn't it just? <3

[watervole]

It's interesting how we interpret images. Without a reasonable knowledge of the Bible,I would have thought much of the quilt to be random images. But knowing what she is portraying adds to my understanding of it.

[elisi]

*nods* And I know basically nothing about quilting, or quilting history, so I was happy to learn more!