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"""An absolute love letter to my younger, tender-headed self. A warm, embracing, and absolutely needed story for the little girl in all of us."" -Korto Momolu, Fashion Designer and Style Curator, Project Runway Finalist These enchanting pages reveal 467 hours of hand-stitching poured into textile renderings that blend cloth, culture, and the superpowers of the kinky, curly coif. It's Wash Day! But Elise doesn't want to wash her hair. Will a visit from her favorite Auntie CC, encouragement from her big sister, Gisele, a poem laced with magic, and a special gift passed down from the women who came before her be enough to change her mind? Sprinkled with #BlackGirlMagic and an ode to cultural beauty, From Cotton to Silk encourages girls everywhere to appreciate their hair in its natural state and love themselves just the way they are."

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"""An absolute love letter to my younger, tender-headed self. A warm, embracing, and absolutely needed story for the little girl in all of us."" -Korto Momolu, Fashion Designer and Style Curator, Project Runway Finalist ""From Cotton to Silk: The Magic of Black Hair is a feast for the eyes and the spirit of all Black children. Crystal C. Mercer has blended fine art, quilting, and literary excellence!"" -Bisa Butler, Fiber Artist, Storyteller ""Crystal C. Mercer weaves a colorful web of magic and sisterhood in From Cotton to Silk: The Magic of Black Hair. From its first sentence, I was swept into its warm cocoon and delighted by intricately rendered tapestries, which adorn the book's pages like treasured family quilts that keep the night air away. The love and wisdom of Auntie CC, Memaw, and all the women guiding little Elise and Gisele toward self-love and mutual care could light up the world-showing us all a path to better days.""-Danielle A. Jackson, Editor, OXFORD AMERICAN ""Crystal C. Mercer's textile wonder From Cotton to Silk: The Magic of Black Hair is a love song to the Ancestors, a wish stitched to the stars for little Black girls everywhere to embrace the magic of their glorious hair. This book is alive with vibrant color and sacred imagery, imbued with a lineage of love, and hand-stitched with so much meticulous detail and beauty, the characters leap off the page and come to life. With the southern sweetness of Auntie CC's voice echoing within, anyone who reads this book will feel held in her soft rhymes, embraced in her warm spirit, and enlightened in the 'alchemy and adoration' unlocking this precious legacy of locs."" -Kai Coggin, author of Periscope Heart, Wingspan, and Incandescent"

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Crystal C. Mercer is an Afro-Creative, Textile Artist, Actor, Activist, Poet and Author of A Love Story Waiting to Happen, Creative Director of Columbus Creative Arts + Activism, and Designer and Lead Merchant of Mercer Textile Mercantile. She fuses arts and activism by using theatre and textiles to tell social justice narratives, through merchandising and storytelling, with an emphasis on uplifting voices of color and making marginalized populations visible. Mercer is the recipient of grants from PEN America and the Dramatist Guild Foundation, which help her continue her charge as a storyteller and a keeper of the culture. She is a 2019 graduate of the Clinton School of Public Service (MPS) and completed her capstone and an international public service project in Accra, Ghana. She was emcee of the 2017 Women's March for Arkansas and regularly commands the stage as she reads her poetry in venues such as the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. Find her at www.crystalcmercer.com. Crystal C. Mercer is an Afro-Creative, Textile Artist, Actor, Activist, Poet and Author of A Love Story Waiting to Happen, Creative Director of Columbus Creative Arts + Activism, and Designer and Lead Merchant of Mercer Textile Mercantile. She fuses arts and activism by using theatre and textiles to tell social justice narratives, through merchandising and storytelling, with an emphasis on uplifting voices of color and making marginalized populations visible. Mercer is the recipient of grants from PEN America and the Dramatist Guild Foundation, which help her continue her charge as a storyteller and a keeper of the culture. She is a 2019 graduate of the Clinton School of Public Service (MPS) and completed her capstone and an international public service project in Accra, Ghana. She was emcee of the 2017 Women's March for Arkansas and regularly commands the stage as she reads her poetry in venues such as the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame. Find her at www.crystalcmercer.com.

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