The Art of Recycling in Southern Folk Traditions
bySouthern self-taught art is one of my favorite art traditions. This may be because I’m Southern, but it’s also because it brings up some…
Craft
Transpositions Tidbits: Domestic Arts
byAlong the lines of the Domestic Arts posts that have been featured all this week on Transpositions, here’s this week’s Tidbits. It’s been a…
Radical Homemaking and the Christian Life
byAs many mothers who begin to ‘stay at home’, I struggled to define my role and justify my decision to cease employment. I know…
An Introduction to the Quilts of Gee’s Bend
byLast week, when I walked into the Gee’s Bend Quilting Collective to meet Mary Ann Pettway, the manager of the collective, I was immediately…
Becoming Human Through Cooking
byCall me a hopeless Romantic, but I won’t give up believing that humans are more than machines. Few cookbooks would reinforce my prejudice, but Robert…
The Art of Preserves
bySounds, tastes, and smells have the ability to transform a moment into a kind of transportation device into our memories. We can be transported…
Creation, Community and Knitting
byIn a world of separation, where we don’t know where our food comes from or how any product really gets to us, who made…