@theblkarchive: "The ancestors are not dead; they are only living in a different place, loving us from a distance." Original video of the Gees Bend Quilters from @Hoodoo Historian 📚 ‘s page. #africanamerican #blackculture #quilting #textiles #hoodoo

jaila :

nobody understands how deeply i cherish black american’s preservation of african and indigenous culture

Big Harp :

This was beautiful. Hoodoo is my bloodline. MS and Louisiana roots. May the ancestors be pleased. Asé 🙏🏾🤲🏾🖤⚜️

India Barnes :

It’s a book called the communion of spirits it’s about African American quilting and how sacred quilts are!

tehyaolivia :

🥺our quilt is so tattered but it makes me so happy to know it’s still kicking all these decades later

kallie :

Now I’m crying thanks 😭

kay (bbq) :

im gnna start crying pls

goodbyescorpio2025 :

my ancestors 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

ladybug☭ :

the ancestors are so important 😭❤️‍🩹

nique :

I loveee quilt making!

凛修 – ૮ ᴗ͈ ˕ ✙╿ྀ꒱: † :

this video is so beautiful, ancestors' stories and souls live everywhere I can tell you that much. I hope no one feels misplaced or lost because your people are always right beside you

moos :

Look up Harriet Powers, whose quilts brought her Kongolese heart into the US South 🖤

Charlie Rose :

Annddddd now I’m finna ask my Great Aunt for one of my Great-Great Aunt’s quilts to hang in my home as art 🥹🫶🏽🥰

miss.journ :

Oh to reflect on the comfort and peace you felt under a quilt as a kid and to now understand as an adult what that truly meant . To held by the intentional love of your ancestors. The time put into making these quilts now being time you spend with ancestors simply by using them.

Jourdyn :

I miss my grandma

artie.fartie98 :

i dream of my grandma; she holds me in her arms again

Secret :

I can feel my ancestors pain a lot of the time the more I got in touch with my blackness, n the more I’m aware and woke (aware of antiblackness) the more connected we feel,

Aurelian :

This edit is so calming I love it

SugaFreeMarket :

Love this ❤️

Lindsey :

Because it ALWAYS that deep 🥰

madi :

so glad i still got mine

KrunchQueen🇺🇸 :

My great grandma made a quilt. I can’t wait to make one for her.

avi :

Hillary :

This choked me up