The Quilting Path: A Guide to Spiritual Discover Through Fabric, Thread and Kabbalah

By Louise Silk

Book Overview

Discover how the process of making a quilt can be used to explore and strengthen your own spirituality. Includes ten engaging projects. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159473206X
• ISBN13: 9781594732065
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: LongHill Partners, Incorporated
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Remarkable Book

The Quilting Path is a remarkable book not only from the quilting aspect, but also from the wealth of love and spirituality that each chapter imparts. Faced with the end stage of an illness, it has become my constant companion, I reread parts of it every day. While I can no longer physically do the quilting projects, I study the directions and create various adaptations in my mind. The Quilting Path is a must have. You will not be disappointed.

The Quilting Path

Although not a quilter myself, I could see how easily I could follow Louise Silk's "path" as a painter. I found the chapters fascinating as she wove together personal stories, Jewish mysticism and the spirituality of her quilting art. This is a book about a real life that is shared with courageous honesty, and one steeped in spiritualty. For example, the chapter that ends with the creation of a baby's quilt fittingly begins with Louise's brave and frank and loving reflections on her children. A discussion of Kabbalah's fourth divine attribute, "Chesed", or loving kindness naturally follows. Louise's book is meant to be savoured slowly, and her projects provide the opportunity for meditative reflection. I am grateful to have read the book.

The Quilting Path

I enjoyed the book. I got a sense of Zen as I read it. The stories in the book kept coming back to me after I'd finished, and made me think of it again and again.

A deeply reverent and meaningful guide to the higher dimensions of a widely beloved craft and hobby.

Written by Louise Silk, a professional quilter of thirty years' experience, The Quilting Path: A Guide To Spiritual Discovery Through Fabric, Thread and Kabbalah is a unique blend of needlecraft and Kabbalah spirituality. Silk presents the mystical traditions of Kabbalah as a contemplative system open to all regardless of individual religious or spiritual background. Chapters walk the reader through the practical steps of crafting ten products ranging from a utility quilts and string-pieced pillows to applique quilts and signature tablecloths, and more while simultaneously introducing the practitioner to the spiritual aspects of cutting and piecing. Each chapter introduces a human attribute as selected in accordance with Kabbalah tradition, and applies the attribute to the quilting project discussed. A deeply reverent and meaningful guide to the higher dimensions of a widely beloved craft and hobby.

Inspires me to walk the path

I enjoyed the way Louise intertwined her life experience with the her passion for her "practice". I also appreciated learning about Kabbalah, from a woman's point of reference. The projects are exciting and are appropriate for beginners and advanced quilters. I found myself smiling & nodding as I turned the pages. I, too, am an artist. This book has inspired me to bravely embark on a new journey.