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In Queens, Immigrant Women Sew a Truer Atlas
The largely undocumented Latin American women of New York’s “costureros,” or needlework circles, are creating a countermap to archive the stories of their lives.
Amalia Uribe Guardiola is a recipient of the Ayumi Horie Award for the Craft Archive Fellowship. Her research traces how textile knowledge moves through the Americas as expressions of home, care, and protest emerge and transform through migration.