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“Precious Point of Unity” – A Collaborative Textile Hanging

December 7, 2021, in Images > Visual Arts, by

A group of craftspeople from the Maritime provinces of Canada, some beginners and others seasoned artists, have created a special textile hanging called “Precious Point of Unity”. The textile consists of 16 blocks of art that are either painted, quilted, hand stitched or embellished. Each block is based on a story from Vignettes from the Life of Abdu’l-Baha and they were sewn together in the form of a triangle to represent a mountain pointing to a nine-pointed star, depicting Abdu’l-Baha as the Centre or Focus of the Covenant.

In this post, we share a closer look at this textile and its comprising blocks:

You can also read an interview with some of the participants from this project here on Baha’i Blog: “Precious Point of Unity” – Textile Artwork in Honor of Abdu’l-Baha

The video below shares the stories of Abdu’l-Baha which inspired the artworks that make up “Precious Point of Unity”:

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Sonjel Vreeland

In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
Sonjel Vreeland

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