This project is an extension of a " Vision Mapping" activity that used a paper template with students who cut out design squares and glued them to construction paper to create a 2D quilt design. The SVGs will be exported into Tinkercad.Īs an alternative, students can use the sample SVG files and import those into Tinkercad.
Students can create symbols using Inkscape, a free and open-source vector graphics editor used to create vector images, primarily in SVG format. Students will design a three dimensional quilt using personal symbols (as code), then import the symbols as Scalable Vector Graphics or SVG files into Tinkercad 3D Design to create 3D quilts. The goal of this activity is to link 2D design / 3D modeling to collaborative quilting bees and the use of symbols and codes in hanging quilts that guided enslaved African people and their descendants to freedom.
These quilts were embedded with a kind of code, so that by reading the shapes and motifs sewn into the design, an enslaved person on the run could know the area’s immediate dangers or even where to head next." - Marie Claire Bryant "According to legend, a safe house along the Underground Railroad was often indicated by a quilt hanging from a clothesline or windowsill.
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