Apples and Oranges. I like the beautiful designs as well. Guess you've missed my point.
Donna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Campin - bogus address" Newsgroups: rec.crafts.textiles.quilting Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 5:33 AM Subject: Re: fabric "markings"
"D>> I do not have anything against Muslins, I just won't buy anything
>> with their emblem. I have many friends of many different
>> religions and of many colors and was different types of sexes.
>> I love them all. It's not the Muslins, it's not the Germans....it
>> was their "signs" and what they stood for for certain segments
>> of their people.
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> Well I suspect you're in a minority of one here.
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> For everybody else, here is a selection of links that might help
> in using Islamic imagery in quilting:
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> 9/11 quilt
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> A Muslim quilt you won't see
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> Basic site on Islamic calligraphy
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> "Bismillah" in Square Kufic
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> Intro to Square Kufic (ideal for patchwork)
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> Square Kufic on clothing
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> Answers.com on Islamic calligraphy (and a Christian Arabic example)
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> Calligraphy for "love" and "peace" as a t-shirt
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> Calligraphy for the cover of a book about the Jenin massacre
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> Arabic spraycan graffiti brightening up bombed Beirut
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> Square Kufic calligraphy design instructions
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> Common design ideas in Islamic calligraphy
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> Modern abstract Arabic calligraphy
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> Variants of "Bismillah"
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> Iranian woman artist (look at the third page of "spiritual paintings"
> for something naturally quiltable)
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> More Persian art (if you can turn any of this into a quilt you're > a technical genius)
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> Huge and amazing gallery of Persian calligraphy
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