Goddess Women Cloth A Worldwide Tradition of Making and Using Ritual Textiles.
Artist, Professor of Art and author, Mary B. Kelly has documented folk textiles in Europe, the Balkans, Greece and Scandinavia in her trilogy, Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe, (!989) Goddess Embroideries of the Balkan Lands and Greek Islands (1999) and Goddess Embroideries of the Northlands ( 2007). She served as guest curator for Sacred Symbols, Ceremonial Cloth, an exhibit at the Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum in Decorah Ia, (2009). In 2011, she published a chapter Berehinia in the 3 volume set, ed. by Patricia Monaghan, Goddesses in World Culture, Praeger, (978-0-313-35465-6) and the text for Kaspaikka Muistiliina, Maahenki, Helsinki, Finland. (978-952-5870-02-2) Kelly has presented her findings in conferences at Oslo University, (2008) and research for this book as keynote speaker at the ASWM conference in Madison, WI and at the Ukrainian Museum, NYC (2011). A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, and Syracuse University, Kelly conducts classes, lectures and exhibits on Hilton Head, SC where she maintains a weaving and painting studio.