The international meeting centre for women and girls in Fürth, Germany offered to participate in the project Survival - Women's Daily Life in Pictures among their many other cultural, educational and recreational activities. Five Turkish women, all immigrants, who had recently come as brides, decided to make a quilt, about their migration backgrounds.
The first picture, top left, depicts Life in a Village, where daily living centres around the seasons. Women always need to do a number of tasks simultaneously. The community of women master their daily life together and help each other. In the second picture, top right, The Bride is Taken to the Wedding. The bride in her wedding dress is surrounded by family and guests. She is waiting for her bridegroom, who will come to fetch her on a decorated horse to the music of drums. He will have come from Germany to marry.
The third picture, second row left, shows the whole village at The Wedding Dance. The wedding festivities will last for three days.
The Wedding Feast is depicted in the fourth picture, second row right. Sheep have been slaughtered for the banquet and cooked with couscous in huge pots outdoors. Bread would have been made a few days before. The food is spread on large sheets.
In the fifth picture, bottom left, the Flight to Germany takes place and the bride is driven to the airport. The husband usually will have returned to Germany after a few weeks but the bride may have had to wait up to two years after the bridegroom left because of immigration regulations.
The sixth picture, bottom right, is a scene in Germany of a daughter-in-law serving her mother-in-law. She will have to do all the cooking, cleaning and shopping and show respectful deference to her mother-in-law at all times.
| 
