Unit VII Material Culture: The Stuff of Life
Lesson 6 Louisiana Crafts and Decorative Arts

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Directions: Click on the webpage names below to find information about the different kinds of material culture in Louisiana. Use the information you find to complete your worksheets for this lesson.

Outdoor and Indoor Crafts

Creole State Exhibit
          http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/CSE/creole_home.html

Fait a la Main (Made by Hand), About Louisiana Crafts
          http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/articles_essays/fait.html

Louisiana Folklife Articles

Folk Crafts: A Hand-Me-Down Tradition
          http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_folkcrafts_hand.html

Louisiana Boatbuilding: An Unfathomed Fortune
          http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_boatbuild_unfat.html

Textile Uses in the Home of Central Louisiana Czechs
          http://www.crt.state.la.us/folklife/creole_art_textile_czechs.html

In My Father's House: North Louisiana Gravehouses as Art and Technology
          http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_gravehouses_fa.html

Quiltmaking

Traditional Quiltmaking in Louisiana
          http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_quiltmaking_tra.html

Quilts and Quiltmaking in America 1978-1996, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
          http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/qlthtml/qlthome.html

Documenting Quiltmaking
          http://www.louisianafolklife.org/Resources/main_documenting_quilt.html

Housetypes

Louisiana Studies in Historic Preservation
          Louisiana Architecture: A Handbook on Styles

Resurrecting an Acadian House
          http://dnr.louisiana.gov/assets/TAD/education/ECEP/constr/h/h.htm

General Information About Louisiana Crafts

Louisiana Folk Artist Biographies
          http://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/artist-biographies

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