WITH HER OWN HANDS: WOMEN WEAVING THEIR STORIES (PB)

Throughout history, textiles have been a way for women to explore their intellectual capacities, seek economic independence, create community, process traumas, and convey powerful messages of self-expression and political protest. Spanning continents and centuries, Nehrig brings together remarkable stories of women who have woven their own stories and created objects of beauty and significance. Includes an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samplers to teach girls maths and geography, the Quechua weavers working to preserve and revive Incan traditions today, the Miao women of southern China who pass down their histories in elaborate "story cloths" and a mid-century British women's postal art exchange.