Hmong Story Cloths
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Author | : Linda Gerdner |
Publisher | : Schiffer Craft |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780764348594 |
Hmong story cloths provide a visual documentation of the historical and cultural legacy of the Hmong people from the country of Laos. The Hmong first began making the story cloths during their time in refugee camps, and featured here are 48 vibrant story cloths that provide a comprehensive look at their lives and culture. The creation of a story cloth begins with the selection of fabric and images outlined onto the fabric. Long satin stitches of multi-colored threads fill in the image, while details are applied with intricate satin stitches and borders pieced together and hand-stitched. Topics include history, traditional life in Laos, Hmong New Year, folk tales, and neighboring people. The quality and diversity of content of the story cloths build upon one another to provide a holistic understanding of the Hmong culture and history. Augmented with personal stories and artifacts, this book is perfect for history buffs and textile artisans alike.
Author | : Dia Cha |
Publisher | : Perfection Learning |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780780779013 |
The story cloth made for the author chronicles the life of the Hmong people in their native Laos and their eventual emigration to the United States. Includes a compendium of Hmong culture--their history, traditions, and stitchery techniques.
Author | : Pegi Deitz Shea |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2003-09-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547533608 |
For the Hmong people living in overcrowded refugee camps in Thailand, America is a dream: the land of peace and plenty. In 1995, ten years after their arrival at the camp, thirteen-year-old Mai Yang and her grandmother are about to experience that dream. In America, they will be reunited with their only remaining relatives, Mai’s uncle and his family. They will discover the privileges of their new life: medical care, abundant food, and an apartment all their own. But Mai will also feel the pressures of life as a teenager. Her cousins, now known as Heather and Lisa, try to help Mai look less like a refugee, but following them means disobeying Grandma and Uncle. From showers and smoke alarms to shopping, dating, and her family’s new religion, Mai finds life in America complicated and confusing. Ultimately, she will have to reconcile the old ways with the new, and decide for herself the kind of woman she wants to be. This archetypal immigrant story introduces readers to the fascinating Hmong culture and offers a unique outsider’s perspective on our own.
Author | : Anne Fadiman |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 0374533407 |
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this brilliantly reported and beautifully crafted book explores the clash between a medical center in California and a Laotian refugee family over their care of a child.
Author | : Kao Kalia Yang |
Publisher | : Coffee House Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1566892627 |
In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a written language of their own, the Hmong experience has been primarily recorded by others. Driven to tell her family’s story after her grandmother’s death, The Latehomecomer is Kao Kalia Yang’s tribute to the remarkable woman whose spirit held them all together. It is also an eloquent, firsthand account of a people who have worked hard to make their voices heard. Beginning in the 1970s, as the Hmong were being massacred for their collaboration with the United States during the Vietnam War, Yang recounts the harrowing story of her family’s captivity, the daring rescue undertaken by her father and uncles, and their narrow escape into Thailand where Yang was born in the Ban Vinai Refugee Camp. When she was six years old, Yang’s family immigrated to America, and she evocatively captures the challenges of adapting to a new place and a new language. Through her words, the dreams, wisdom, and traditions passed down from her grandmother and shared by an entire community have finally found a voice. Together with her sister, Kao Kalia Yang is the founder of a company dedicated to helping immigrants with writing, translating, and business services. A graduate of Carleton College and Columbia University, Yang has recently screened The Place Where We Were Born, a film documenting the experiences of Hmong American refugees. Visit her website at www.kaokaliayang.com.
Author | : Jewell Reinhart Coburn |
Publisher | : Shen's Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781885008411 |
Despite a cruel stepmother's schemes, Jouanah, a young Hmong girl, finds true love and happiness with the aid of her dead mother's spirit and a pair of special sandals.
Author | : Sue Murphy Mote |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-02-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476616175 |
The Hmong were driven out of Laos by the turmoil of the Vietnam War and settled in America in such large numbers that they are now the second largest Southeast Asian population in the United States. Twelve Hmong immigrants, including a female shaman, an ex-military officer, a reformed gang member, a doctor, and a woman who was snatched from her mountain village at the age of eight, deposited in Laos's French culture and finally returned to Laos years later, tell their stories of struggling with American life while preserving the values of their own ancient culture. The author also considers the 5,000 years of Hmong history and its lasting influence.
Author | : Clare Hunter |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 168335771X |
This globe-spanning history of sewing and embroidery, culture and protest, is “an astonishing feat . . . richly textured and moving” (The Sunday Times, UK). In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework carried her messages to the outside world. From the political propaganda of the Bayeux Tapestry, World War I soldiers coping with PTSD, and the maps sewn by schoolgirls in the New World, to the AIDS quilt, Hmong story clothes, and pink pussyhats, women and men have used the language of sewing to make their voices heard, even in the most desperate of circumstances. Threads of Life is a chronicle of identity, memory, power, and politics told through the stories of needlework. Clare Hunter, master of the craft, threads her own narrative as she takes us over centuries and across continents—from medieval France to contemporary Mexico and the United States, and from a POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland—to celebrate the universal beauty and power of sewing.
Author | : Sami Scripter |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1452914516 |
Simple, earthy, fiery, and fresh, Hmong food is an exciting but still little-known South Asian cuisine. In traditional Hmong culture, dishes are created and replicated not by exact measurements but by taste and experimentationfor every Hmong recipe, there are as many variations as there are Hmong cooksand often served to large, communal groups. Sami Scripter and Sheng Yang have gathered more than 100 recipes, illustrated them with color photos of completed dishes, and provided descriptions of unusual ingredients and cooking techniques.
Author | : Brian V. Xiong |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2020-07-25 |
Genre | : Decorative arts, Hmong |
ISBN | : 9781644100158 |
Hmong Archives was founded as a nonprofit on 10 February 1999 to collect, preserve, research and interpret materials by and about Hmong.