01.28.2015 | 8 Shevat, 5775

Arts And Culture

By VICTORIA KEZRA \

04/10/2014 09:59

Quilting for peace

An expert in Israeli cinema turns her hand to embroidery.

Amy Kronish quilts. (photo credit:VICTORIA KEZRA)

For the past 10 years, Amy Kronish has made what she calls “coexistence quilts,” combining her own quilting techniques with the hand-sewn embroidery of Beduin and Palestinian women to make meaningful pieces of functional art.

She never imagined that quilting would come to obsess her and turn into a political statement.

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