Further Reading & Inspiration
Appendix to "Radical Quilting" (2026), publication by Dyke March Amsterdam.
These are some of the sources that inspired us in writing Radical Quilting (or that we ourselves want to further delve into in the future). We hope they can spark your interest too. This list is not an encyclopaedic collection on quilting and textile arts, but more of a trail of resources that we have encountered while working on this publication. We keep adding to this online collection - if there is a source you would like us to be aware of, you can contact us at dykemarchamsterdam@proton.me.
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Books & Publications
✦ Bailey, J. A Quilt Bibliography. Public Library Quilts. https://www.publiclibraryquilts.com/quilt-library
✦ Bailey, J. Many Hands Make a Quilt: Short Histories of Radical Quilting. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/many-hands-make-a-quilt-short-histories-of-radical-quilting
✦ Dedman, R. Stitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine. Common Threads Press. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/stitching-the-intifada-embroidery-and-resistance-in-palestine
✦ Diamond, K. Pinning and Stitching Connections. How the Feminist Library badge archive inspired a contemporary knitting collection. Common Threads Press. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/pinning-and-stitching-connections
✦ Hemmings, J. Chunghie Lee: Multiple layers. https://www.jessicahemmings.com/chunghie-lee-multiple-layers
✦ hooks, bell. (1990). Aesthetic Inheritances: History Worked by Hand. In Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics (pp. 115–122). South End Press.
✦ MacGuffin. Issue No 15 – The Stitch. (2025). https://www.macguffinmagazine.com/issues/macguffin-the-stitch
✦ Morris, C. E. I. (2011). Remembering the AIDS Quilt. Michigan State University Press.
✦ Norfolk Trans Joy Community Quilt Zine. Common Threads Press. link
name. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/norfolk-trans-joy-community-quilt-zine
✦ Plummer, S.. Diasporic Threads: Black Women, Fibre and Textiles. Common Threads Press. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/diasporic-threads-black-women-fibre-textiles-revised-edition
✦ The Digital Atlas of European Textile Heritage | Euroweb. https://euroweb.uw.edu.pl/the-digital-atlas-of-european-textile-heritage/
✦ Thompson-Odlum, M. (editor). (2024). Mauka to Makai: Hawaiian Quilts and the Ecology of the Islands. Common Threads Press. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/mauka-to-makai-hawaiian-quilts-and-the-ecology-of-the-islands
✦ van der Voet, H., Mascia, A., Bertens, B., & van Meyeren, E. (2025). All Work is Women’s Work. On The Seamstresses’ Union radical publishing practices in early 20th century Amsterdam. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/all-work-is-womens-work
✦ White, J. We Will Find Them: Arpilleras and the Political Art of Chile Under Pin. Common Threads Press. https://www.commonthreadspress.co.uk/products/pre-order-we-will-find-them-arpilleras-and-the-political-art-of-chile-under-pinochet
Artists & Traditions
✦ Chawne Kimber. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/chawne-kimber-32209
✦ Chiara Vigo. Museo del Bisso. https://www.chiaravigo.it/il-maestro.html
✦ Chinese patchwork (Baijiayi, Baijia bei, Jia sha, Shuitianyi, Yanchuan patchwork).
✦ Dorothy Burge. ttps://www.hydeparkart.org/directory/dorothy-burge-2/
✦ Faith Ringgold. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faith_Ringgold&oldid=1349875756
✦ Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers. https://www.soulsgrowndeep.org/gees-bend-quiltmakers
✦ Hawaiian Quilting With Poakalani & Co. https://poakalani.net/
✦ Kowdhi Quilts. https://imp-art.org/articles/kowdhi-quilts/
✦ Maria Lai. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_Lai&oldid=1321207951
✦ Ralli (Rilli) Quilts. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ralli_quilt&oldid=1316058528; https://visitsindh.org/ralli-rilli-quilts-of-sindh/
✦ Rosie Lee Tompkins. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rosie_Lee_Tompkins&oldid=1345436555
✦ Sea silk. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sea_silk&oldid=1344383463
✦ The Art of Handweaving. (2017). Sardinian Arts. https://sardinianarts.com/art-of-handweaving/
✦ WCQN - Women of Color Quilters Network. https://wcqn.org/
Artworks, Exhibitions & Events
✦ Another Hand Quilts. (2026, July 4). Make your own garden quilt!. https://hipsy.nl/event/212989-make-your-own-garden-quilt
✦ Dr. Finbog, L.-R. (2022, October 3). Indigenous Methodologies and Creative Practices. Liisa-Rávná Finbog. https://liisaravna.blog/2022/10/03/indigenous-methodologies-and-creative-practices/
✦ Gnat Rosa Maria. (2025). Glitter Vinyl + Monotype Quilts. https://www.gnatmadrid.com/i-wonder-if-a-quilt-can-be-queer
✦ Kökel, E. Along the Yorgan. (2023). https://egekokel.com/along-the-yorgan/
✦ Queen Lili’uokalani and companion. (1895). Queen Lili’uokalani Quilt. https://quiltindex.org/
✦ Recycling and Resourcefulness: Quilts of the 1930s. American Folk Art Museum. (2008-2009). https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/recycling-and-resourcefulness-quilts-of-the-1930s/
✦ Scribbling Women. (2025). Exhibition at the International Quilt Museum (Lincoln, NE). International Quilt Museum. https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/exhibition/scribbling-women
✦ Signature Styles: Friendship, Album, and Fundraising Quilts. (2020). https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/signature-styles/
✦ The Rajah Quilt. (1841). National Gallery of Australia. https://nga.gov.au/stories-ideas/the-rajah-quilt-1841/
✦ The Tristan Quilt (1390). Victoria & Albert Museum Textiles and Fashion Collection. https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O98183/the-tristan-quilt-bed-cover-unknown/
✦ Threads of our Dutch Slavery Past / Draden van ons Nederlandse slavernijverleden. (2026, May 1 - Sep 20) Framer Framed. https://framerframed.nl/projecten/draden-van-ons-nederlandse-slavernijverleden/
✦ Venema, E., Sunflower Soup Collective (2025, March 16). Workshop: Many Hands. At Rotterdam Illustration Festival 2025. https://www.instagram.com/rdamillufest/p/DFDRtGXt7ql/
✦ Wandkleed De Molenwijk. (2021). Framer Framed. https://framerframed.nl/dossier/wandkleed-de-molenwijk/
✦ We Gather at the Edge: Contemporary Quilts by Black Women Artists. (2025). Smithsonian American Art Museum. https://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/black-women-quilters
✦ Workshop: 100 Butterflies for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Girls, and Non-Binary People. (2025, March 4). Framer Framed. https://framerframed.nl/projecten/workshop-100-butterflies-for-the-elimination-of-violence-against-women-girls-and-non-binary-people/
✦ Yorgan: The Art of the Turkish Quilt. International Quilt Museum. https://www.internationalquiltmuseum.org/exhibition/yorgan-art-turkish-quilt
✦ Yu, Y. (2023). Visible Stitches, Invisible Women. https://www.yangyu-yy.com/visiblestitchesinvisiblewomen
Articles & Analyses
✦ Cascone, S. (2025). How Textile Artist Maria Lai Turned ‘Women’s Work’ Into Avant-Garde Art. Artnet News. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/maria-lai-magazzino-2665363
✦ Daily, R. R. (2021). Public Thinker: Chawne Kimber on Constructing Quilts and Speaking History. Public Books. https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-chawne-kimber-on-constructing-quilts-and-speaking-history/
✦ Gaye-Duparc, A. (2023). The Gee’s Bend Quilt Collective: A story of the South. AWARE Women Artists / Femmes Artistes. https://awarewomenartists.com/en/magazine/le-gees-bend-quilt-collective-une-histoire-du-sud-des-etats-unis/
✦ Greendeer, K., Shaw, M., Nichols, E., & Hyppolite, J. An Evolution of Expression: Sundance Star Quilt. National Museum of African American History and Culture. https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/evolution-expression
✦ Hazel, T. (2022). To Speak For Yourself: On the Many Lives of Dorothy Burge. Sixty Inches From Center. https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org.dream.website/to-speak-for-yourself-on-the-many-lives-of-dorothy-burge/
✦ Japanese Boro Textiles Tell Histories of Labor and Love Through Patchwork. (2020). Eye on Design. https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/japanese-boro-textiles-tell-histories-of-labor-and-love-through-patchwork/
✦ Korea Bojagi Forum / KBF. (2025). Chunghie Lee, An Interview by Dawn Tomlinson. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH4FpAHDaog
✦ Maria Lai, Legarsi alla montagna—"Il Nastro di Ulassai" (1981). Rai. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY8INLwBivU
✦ Shannon Kim (Director). (2024). Bojagi: The Historical Korean Art of Gift-Giving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47PGLIshEHs
✦ Smith, B. R. (2020). The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/26/arts/design/rosie-lee-tompkins-quilts.html
✦ Under the seas: Bisso di Mare. (2021). ISSIMO. https://issimoissimo.com/blogs/news/under-the-seas-bisso-di-mare