Traditions: Ohio Heritage Fellows; 102; Carolyn Mazloomi interview, part 1 of 3

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for carolyn as looming last name him at the elbow call him on you know parents receiving the fellowship award was quite an honor one of the highlights of my career and i just feel blessed having read a lot about yourself taught her the song your ged classes what what what motivated also say and encircled i find that quotes are very beautiful and timmy mesmerizing it's something about the cloth that

portion into it and when i think about it seriously we as human being have a lower fare of the cloth so it's something that we have to deal with every day he sold the beauty of a quilt it was something that just took me to another level and i felt that i had to learn how to quilt calm so idea i've taught myself a quick well it didn't take that long i would say about it a year or so but also i look at myself as a perpetual student because i'm always learning learning new take meeks out new ways of doing things especially now in this computer age there's a oh a lot use of computers and over our equipment that that's currently being used that

quilted didn't think about using twenty years ago ten years ago so every year we see new techniques new ways of doing things in a new our products that come along that quote was used to make make what they make thirty two years old there's a lot of scholarly discussion about the difference between art and the difference between cracked art vs craft a man i see myself as a craps person because i'm using my hands to create art but stale the bottom line

ramy is unique thing that a person makes and sees beauty and that it's our side i'm not differentiating between what's art and what kraft but i do know i'm using my aims to create aoun a quilt and i look at that is that it's the it's a crack that something that mr miller right you have a lot of maybe a show you huge scholarly study about what is an african american quilt to me an african american quilt is any quote made by an african american early early scholars have tried to come up with the us

several criteria to define what an african american quilt looks like and what they did was take i am quilts that were made in the wolf south which are improvisational quilts improvisational quilts mean these clothes were made without benefit of water in a mandate they used that as the criteria to define an african american quilt well it's not just about improvisation the types of quilts found within the african american community are just as varied as we are a people you find contemporary quilt art quilts traditional quilts as well as improvisational quilts so it's not about want it we we made all types of quilts so then another facet of their we

as african american quilt makers tend to make narrative quilts up a and bills merit to quilts deal with our culture soul from a cultural point of view and the subject matter if you want it to define what we do through subject matter in our culture the could say oh that that's an african american quilt on quilts that are defined by cultural subject of interest to the artist who happens to be african american usually i don't like telling stories stories of very important to me most of the quills that i made a deal with the status of women for all to deal with music because i love

music especially jazz but more so for me i liked telling the stories of women around world matches women here both women around the world my clothes are different because the subject matter is different day and the subject matter as close to me as an african american i deal with issues that affect me as an african american living in this country living here today and i deal with the issues that effect of course women so well but i think the african american dreams carry out maybe in a fourth of my work

oh really okay we are african people were brought to this country as slaves they brought with them are really a set of needlework steals it wasn't like they couldn't sell out there is a history of quilt making in africa but not quote seized on the big the quilts were used our patchwork was used for our tents and horses are pulling so when they came here they could already doing piecework an applicator work and it was an easy transition to start making the beer quilty head carl african

americans are on the slate and on plantations that made to traditional be acquittals for the year half the mistress of the plantation as will and taking the scraps are making quilts for them sales alm somebody squeals of course for the fall mistress were very elaborate quilts and there they are only used the quilts with the scraps were just their scrappy quilts made of leftover our outer wrapper so we came here with legal works fields are ready well as i say it earlier harm enslaved africans would maybe had quilts they had to make beer quilts to keep them warm how mr after slavery

people stop making women stop making quilts because they would look no longer necessary they are they were working there was this great migration to the north people were working and they have money to go and quilts sold then i find in my own research that quilting has skipped several generations because now when i interview older quilters banner ad and older they they did like they don't like quilt making because they found it to be work and it was easier to go and buy any more prestigious ok to be able to go to the store and buy a machine made and remade quilt so there we go through a transition it was in the sixties and

seventies we're doing the black pride movement and the women's movement as african americans became more way of their own history and taking pride in that they reach back to look back kratz arts and crafts that were predominantly an african american community they and people begin to research this a hand there be good a new movement of the younger generation i wanted to learn how to quilt or palm middle age people wanted to find out their history and find out what was the or involvement in quilt making as well as other arts so now we're seeing more and more young people interested in quote many within the culture