🧵🌸 LET'S TALK ABOUT ARPILLERAS with Dr. Jacqueline Adams - Karen's Quilt Circle

Quilts have been a vehicle to express resistance to oppression throughout history and in many cultures. In Chile, women created arpilleras- tiny patchwork pieces in defiance of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In her book, Art Against Dictatorship, Dr. Jacqueline Adams examines the history of these quilters, and their role during this turbulent period.
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[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

This video has actually been two years in the making and the world has changed in so many ways. When you first read the accounts of Pinochet and his dictatorship one thinks that it could never happen here....but it almost has. Which makes the story of the arpilleristas so much more heart breaking and relevant to today. Democracy is fragile and we must not take it for granted. Please grab your sewing and a cup of tea and enjoy.

[@brendacaston599]

Excellent interview. You were so we'll prepared. I'm very interested in the connection between textiles and social constructs. Thank you for your mind expanding video!

[@kylierigby1953]

Thanks for this interview, just watched, and very timely. History if not learned from has a tendency to repeat itself. It most certainly is repeating. The world is facing a dictatorship in epic proportions, you just have to be open to what is not being shown. I wonder what special art works will be created depicting these years? Lovely to watch anything you post, many blessings.

[@brendafrye5875]

AGAIN Karen you have found a most interesting lady to talk to. I would love to just sit and listen to all the knowledge pouring from her mind. I so admire your gift for seeking out these people. Thank you so much for sharing.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Wow, thank you. So glad you liked it

[@maryfoster5189]

one year when I taught first grade, we did a math unit on geometry and I taught it through quilts. They made paper quilt designs and I encourage them to bring in any family quilts they had at home. One girl brought in a quilt from the 40s. Her great-grandmother and family had escaped from Nazi Germany over the Alps. They wore as many clothes as they could, especially warm woollen coats. When they were safely in New York and the coats were wearing out, the great-grandmother made quilts out of the woollen cloth from the coats for each family member. When I first saw the coat I thought it was a bit dull and ugly but after hearing its history, I saw that it as was a most beautiful and treasured quilt.

[@claudinewildman4120]

Loved this interview. There is a great documentary about a Holocaust survivor "Big Sonia". It can be seen in the US on PBS. After watching her mother walk to the gas chamber and surviving a concentration camp one of Sonia's treasured possessions is a knitted scarf that belonged to her mother.

[@JesseTrerice]

I am going to look for this documentary - thank you for sharing!

[@michelleinScotland]

Fabulous thank you. So good to hear about something I would never know about if you hadn't made this video.

[@christinevalentine3373]

Thank you for another fascinating talk in a language all its own. I also would love to hear textile stories of marginalised peoples, you are doing amazing work educating people like me and shining your wonderful light into the dark places. My mother was a stolen child from New Britain, an island now encompassed by Papua NewGuinea, her mother was from a tiny island named Garove (or Garow) on some maps and I have only just begun to delve into her story. You give me hope for a brighter future. I’m also very impressed at peoples ability to create languages to speak for themselves which are secreted away from their oppressors but are also in plain sight. Thanks again.

[@lucynickerson2397]

My mother was also from Chile, met my father and then moved to the States. I remember visiting my Aunt and uncle while Pinochet was in power. We would talk in whispers, since they thought their apartment was bugged. So many places of business were quiet, factories closed and many police around with machine guns. All led to being nervous the whole time we were there.

[@margaritam.deazcarate4772]

Congratulations. I love your interviews. Sometimes very far from the quilting you tube world ... they challenge us to thought. Thank you.

[@hilarykennedy3544]

Thank you so much Karen for putting a foundation of understanding under an artform I've admired over the years.

[@janiesoito4494]

So fascinating on many levels. The Chilean story quilts remind me of Hmong story quilts. I am fortunate to have cared for Hmong patients and have some of their needle work depicting life before escaping from Laos. I have a good Canadian friend whose husband escaped from Chile during the Pinochet years. Now I have another book to read by Allende who is one of my favorite authors. Thank you for this interview.

[@CheeseheadQuilter]

Yes , yes. Although not political in the same way, the Hmong women’s story quilts depicting their escape from the soldiers during the Viet Nam war, their prolonged stay at refugee camps in Thailand, then their journey to North America are just as beautiful and emotional. In the US, many Hmong people settled in California, Minnesota, and Wisconsin ( my home state). The second type of needlework Hmong women make is very tiny intricate reverse appliqué. This would make a great topic for you, Karen.

[@cathytyrrell5502]

Really thought provoking about the value of textile art. It’s poignant that these impoverished female artists were more concerned with communication/dissidence than with the pay, and that others supported them. Jacqueline is an amazing person too.

[@donnaborg5636]

Fascinating interview Karen. Amazing how textiles have been used throughout history to tell personal stories. Thank you.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@fayeglin835]

Wonderful interview Karen

[@SewtheDistance]

This was amazing! Thank you so much, Karen, for doing this. ❤

[@gayleandrews8836]

Truly inspiring to hear this interview and how women are empowered through telling their stories with textiles! Thank you for bringing this interview to us…your viewers!!

[@deannatolliver1656]

I did a double-take when I saw the title of this video because I have an arpillera. Unusual textiles tend to catch my eye and I saw the one I have on eBay for, I think, $15, about 10 years ago. I had no idea what it was but I felt like I wanted to save it, somehow. I eventually learned what it was and have a couple of books on the subject. The one I have is full of three-dimensional people and it’s quite long, maybe 5’ x 2.5’ feet. I’m going to contact Dr. Adams and send her photos of what I have, in the hope she can tell me more about it. Thank you so much!

[@EstrafaDC]

Karen, you are a wonder. Another great conversation about a little known form of art and craft in the service justice. I do wish there'd been some time to translate some of these for your viewers sho don't read Spanish. As a native speaker, I was moved by the powerful simplicity of the text. That small piece reading “We are being left alone." by women whose family members had been disappeared by the dictatorship. But still, powerful. You are to be commended for giving a more expansive voice to this artwork. Brava! Brava!!

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thank you for doing that. If there are more I can add them to the video notes

[@Charlie-cz3jh]

Thank you Karen for sharing this valuable story.

[@dianew1632]

So very interesting! Women working for a cause in any way they can. Love your interviews. It shows that you've researched the topics before the actual events. Thank you.

[@starbrown1219]

Such an interesting guest on your show. Thank you.

[@colleen6960]

Greatly enjoyed this very informative & interesting interview. Wonderful listening to someone who thoroughly researches their subject & who cares greatly for the persecuted. I had the great pleasure of renting a flat at our previous residential home (in Australia) to a Chilean Ambassador & his beautiful teenage daughter, during which time I learnt a huge amount about Chile. Thank you for sharing.

[@gerrysiebert8639]

Found I was teary after interview when reading commenter's translation "we are being left alone". Remembered Sting's song "we dance alone" which brought attention to the disappeared during the Pinochet regime. Interesting the intertwining of different art forms. Thank you for a thought provoking interview...you're right about fragility of what we in Canada consider to be democracy.

[@RhondaLorch]

This was so very interesting Karen. Please keep exposing us to new and inspiring ways to inform our quilting.

[@janerose1945]

Thank you so much for such an insightful connection you made for us all. These were wonderful learning moments.

[@gloriacotten117]

Wonderful interview, Karen! These creative women living in poverty under repressive dictatorships finding a way to both support their families and communicate their oppression to the outside world is so admirable and inspirational. Thanks so much for pursuing and sharing this topic. I had no idea!

[@polyesterbebe]

Thank you for this interview.

[@juliemorrison4348]

Thank you very much Jacqueline for sharing your knowledge on this interesting subject.♥️🇦🇺

[@SewingMamaJulie]

Thank you so much for this interview, very insightful and thought provoking, blessings from Bristol, Wisconsin

[@delaynenielsen4413]

Another awesome interview! I have loved all I have learned. Thanks.

[@dianeetcheverry6452]

What an outstanding video. Thank you.That looks very much like the Mong quilts. They also tell a story of oppression. What an enlightening video.

[@GrandmaD2024]

What an amazing story!! This is so unbelievable that these women told their struggles through their artwork 😳.

[@lindabardes9974]

You may be interested in the quilting or fiber art of the Hmong who created amazing works during the Vietnam war. We have the largest Hmong population in the US and I have had the privilege of seeing some of it. It fits right in with this narrative.

[@QuiltyJill]

Thank you Karen and Jacqueline! This was fascinating!

[@julieshoup1559]

Thank you, thank you for finding this amazing person and her research. I listened intently to every word. Amazing that it happened during my life time and I had no clue. about Chili.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

I feel the same. There is a rich history there that we are never exposed to

[@julestopper7553]

wonderful interview.

[@claudiafigueiredo7969]

Wow! This is fascinating! Wow!

[@susananderson8428]

Fun interview. Reminded of how small the world can be. First, I recently finished the same book "The Long Petal of the Sea". It was a very good book and eye-opening for me. Then your interview with Dr. Jacqueline Adams was surprising because I have a cousin that also works with Jewish Studies at Berkley! I'll have to see if he knows her! (small world). A few years ago I started a series of books (fiction) about quilting in the US used in the Underground Railroad to help escaping slaves. Have you ever researched this topic? It might be an interesting topic for Karen's Quilt Circle, if you ever run out of other ieas1 I love these videos. Very informative, interesting and inspiring.❤

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Amazing how information travels in circles. Something that you recently learned is suddenly everywhere in plain sight.

[@lms2379]

Another “wow guest”. Thanks, Karen!

[@katherinethomas2131]

The ornament that you did i had commented that the center of mine did not meet. I had started with the tips of the Hexes and not the straight sides.

[@elisedebruin4428]

wow this was good to watch thank you

[@ShadowMoonFarms]

This was so interesting. Thank you for your interview.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thanks for listening

[@melanycyr782]

Wow!! Fantastic interview Karen!! Very interesting to listen to. Do you have a photo of that quilt on the wall behind you? And maybe a pattern?

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Jen Kingwell's Long Time Gone amzn.to/3FcaxD1

[@emveecee]

Thank you both for this fascinating interview.

[@3looms]

Thank you so much for this fascinating interview!

[@caroltruitttruitt3138]

This is such a timely and informative interview. Thank you for posting it!

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@abigaildolinger2754]

This was so interesting and informative. Thank you, Karen!

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

You are so welcome!

[@lauriknox2486]

Fascinating! Thank you.

[@annerankin1191]

Loved this Karen!!!!

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thanks Anne

[@Ldsks7591]

Very interesting info. Thanks for sharing this.

[@CatherineDoucette]

Thank you. Wonderful interview.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thank you

[@elsafischer3247]

Thank you for this wonderful interview. I’m from South America, which travel all over and also speak many languages.I have a pursed which is made by the Indians that live between Panama and Colombia and is applicate

[@janereimers3790]

Fantastic interview!

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

thank you

[@beckypresley1488]

Good to see you Karen.

[@marilynhardman5239]

Very interesting interview!

[@shannonflood8072]

I found this to be so interesting and enlightening. So grateful for your channel, which I recently found! ❤

[@susanhickman8695]

I enjoyed this video. Thank you.

[@cherylcurlee3279]

Wonderful interview and topic, very informative and interesting.

[@IRISHLASS273]

There was an Irish lady who died recently aged in her 90s. Sorry her name escapes me. When she was 16, her mother told her get a bicycle and go off see the world she did. She absolutely slated/criticised UNESCO, UNICEF, WHO etc; She described the offices of these organizations in Chile, and other very poor countries as nothing more than party palaces Eliminating poverty and educating people were not their priority. Shanty towns exist in developed rich countries because keeping people poor is a big money making industry.

[@siobhananto6148]

Dervla Murphy . Ireland to India with a Bicycle

[@susanlamb7431]

Another really good interview so interesting .thanks again

[@jacquelinem6562]

wonderful interview as always Karen. You mentioned wanting to learn more about fabric in regards to WWII and persecution of Jewish people. May I recommend a book I encountered earlier this year that I think would be helpful? The dressmakers of Auschwitz: the true story of the women who sewed to survive - by Lucy Adlington.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thank you

[@thecheshirecrafter4522]

Such an interesting and informative interview - your interview technique allows the interviewee to speak uninterrupted and that's a great skill to learn. Her subject matter is invokative- hard to imagine this during our lifetimes but so important to know. We don't know how lucky we are and it's easy for us to take our human rights for granted. Hope "the missing/departed" are never forgotten.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thank you. I interviewed another person about this subject the day after the storming on Capital Hill. Hard to believe how fragile democracy can be.

[@suesheehan1976]

What a great interview!❤ Karen, do you or does anyone know if there is any arpilleras class or workshop in the U.S.? I have been interested in this art form for a long time but couldn’t find anything.

[@angelahenriquez9991]

Conocí a Jaquelinne siendo muy niña en Chile mi mamá fue parte de esta investigación😪

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Wow…do you still have any of her arpilleras?

[@rhondaschellin8878]

Oh boy!! Number 2!!

[@lynneschultz316]

Karen, grab a cup of tea & read my comment. You asked whether there was artwork used by dissidents to communicate what was going on. In Theresienstadt, a Nazi ghetto north of Prague, there was a group of about eight men that worked together. One of them smuggled his artwork to Sweden. After a while, his artwork was published in the newspaper there. The Nazis discovered his art and the men were imprisoned. Secondly, there was a group of teenage boys that published the only magazine produced in concentration camps. Petr Ginz was the editor. They “published” their magazine by reading what they had written-short stories, poems, interviews of ppl around the town-on Friday nights; one or two students were outside on guard. They were illustrated. Petr Ginz had published a number of books before he entered Theresienstadt. He was enamored by Jules Vern. He drew a picture of what he thought the surface of the moon looked like. Remember the Space Shuttle Challenger that blew up? On it was an Israeli astronaut. He took a copy of Petr’s drawing with him on that trip.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thank you Lynne. I live very close to the Holocaust centre in Toronto. I am working to talk to a curator there about textiles and art. Your comments will broaden that discussion.

[@lynneschultz316]

@@JustGetitDoneQuilts p.s. O would like to know if you learn of any textile art from the Holocaust. I make lap quilts for Holocaust survivors in Israel. I will look for you in Atlanta.

[@lynneschultz316]

@@JustGetitDoneQuilts I just got this idea. What about AFTER the Holocaust? Any survivors that pursued textiles and art?

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

@@lynneschultz316 Another great idea.

[@annas.r.p.5835]

What is KAREN QUILTING CIRCLE .... What kind of activity /videos do you post there?

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

This interview series is Karen’s Quilt Circle

[@annas.r.p.5835]

My mistake .... it was actually the KAREN QUILTING CREW I was trying to get more information about... for some reason the little video for JOIN keeps cutting out for me.... I think it is a problem with my broad ban.

[@opinionatedone]

I wish you wouldn't always ask me to get a cup of tea. Just can't learn to like the stuff! 😛

[@charliescott9517]

Hi Karen. I found

[@charliescott9517]

Sorry I touched the wrong button. I found something like an arpilleras in rural Victoria Australia. In a second hand shop. I didn’t know what it was so I found your interview very interesting. I would like to send a photo but don’t know how to add to U Tube. Thank you for the interview. XxCharlie

[@ccp634]

The spelling is "Chile," FYI.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Thank you, fixed that typo

[@mariaangelesvenereo4143]

Can I make a comment? Can we apply this for the oppressive regime of my country CUBA? No body in the world seems to have any comments or sympathy for the people of CUBA. Can I have a reaction from the Dr? Or she is pro communist? Thank you

[@mariefaubell4884]

What an unusual leap to think the author is a communist just because she did not cover the struggles of women in Cuba. She was writing about women in South America, specifically Chile. Not mentioning Cuba does not exclude them. Let's be kind to any author who can so eloquently document the struggles of women at any location. Because it applies to women of all locations. And thank you to Karen for the interview and the doctor for her participation. It was an amazing piece and I happen to have one of the three-dimensional works that was sold through the Mennonite 10,000 villages project. They truly are works of art.

[@JustGetitDoneQuilts]

Maria, this was not an open discussion of all countries. Just specific to Chile and the Pinochet regime. Are there any textile artists of Cuba that I could research?

[@christinevalentine3373]

It seems sometimes as if the world has forgotten all the people who have a voice but remain unheard. Luckily, there are people who care and who ask the right questions of the right people. If you have the contact details of textile artists to give to Karen, I would love to see the information that comes from it.