Woven and Mixed Tales by Muriel Bloch and William Wilson

Colorful fabrics, multi-colored loincloths, boubous everywhere: it is a joyful jumble that Muriel Bloch discovers that day in William Wilson's studio. Coupons and rags galore, but no sewing machine! It is the artist who cuts and glues the fabrics onto the paper: a beautiful factory of masks and colors, shapes and imagination. And the story could end there... Yes, but here it is: holed, mismatched, cut, the fabrics have had enough! It is up to the storyteller to soothe them, to amaze them with tales from elsewhere and other times: storytelling and weaving, aren't they the same job? From Mali to Ghana, from Haiti to Cuba, who knows where Samangalé, the horse who knows, takes you...