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About the book >.>.> I wear my grandmother’s white crochet shawls and socks that she made. These handmade objects not only protect me but allow me to feel I’m always immersed in the memories they carry: mem- ories of love of beauty and of refuge. Away from the domestic spaces of the home cloth has taken on yet another meaning for me. As a young woman in exile in the USA I dreamed about the room filled with wool and about the ways in which fabrics became my memory as well as my identity. The power of fabrics can be amplified well beyond the individual experience. Often the creation of these pieces begins within the home but they travel out into the world sharing their stories. Esther Krin- itz Netty Vanderpol and Violeta Parra’s creations (as appearing in the chapters of this book) for exam- ple are exhibited in museums worldwide. It did not begin this way. The individual artists featured in the chapters and the movements that follow present an interesting journey from stitching the internal to the external; a journey from the hearth to the collective voice of the world. In 1976 I became involved with the Chilean arpelleristas the women who created memorial patchworks to remember life before and during the Pinochet dictatorship. They created arpilleras to remember the disappeared to honor their presence and their lives. Holding the arpulleras in my hands 1 would imagine how these mothers tenaciously re created the life of their children through stitching. Despite the early obstacles I faced this work became the most important in my academic career. This book Stitching Resistance began to develop many years after my work. (LL)