Black girls sew : projects and patterns to stitch and make your own / Hekima Hapa and Lesley Ware.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : Abrams, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 175 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781419754845
- 141975484X
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 646.407 H252 | Available | 33111010845697 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Hekima Hapa and Lesley Ware's Black Girls Sew supplies tools, builds skills, and offers encouragement to help young sewists create a powerful sense of self and style.
Black Girls Sew is a nonprofit organization built on strong messaging: Teach and empower young girls to take ownership of and have pride in their clothing. Their first book offers the tools, knowledge, and vocabulary to help young people take back their fashion narrative. Black and brown girls and boys need a space where they do not have to encounter misrepresentation of their culture, and this book provides them with a safe space in which to explore their creativity.
Primarily the book teaches basic sewing skills and design principles so that readers can create one-of-a-kind looks. By encouraging them to follow their curiosity, rather than telling them what to create, Black Girls Sew helps young fashionistas learn to take risks and explore creative play in clothing design. The way we dress is a means of expression, and by encouraging boys and girls to immerse themselves in the world of fashion, providing projects to create their own wares, and offering historical looks at prominent Black figures who have impacted the industry, Black Girls Sew is a guide for all who are interested in fashion, design, and building their own powerful sense of self and style.
Includes color images
Includes bibliographic references (page 170).
"Black Girls Sew is a nonprofit organization committed to positively impacting its community through education in sewing, design, and entrepreneurship. Black Girls Sew is based in Brooklyn."--back cover.
"Black Girls Sew provides the tools, knowledge, and vocabulary to help young sewists take back their fashion narrative. Focusing primarily on basic sewing skills and design principals, Black Girls Sew helps readers learn to create one-of-a-kind looks and in the process grow more confident in expressing their own style. By encouraging them to follow their curiosity rather than telling them what to create, the book helps young fashionistas learn to take risks and explore creative play in their clothing design."--back cover.