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2. International Honor Quilt - Wikipedia

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   The International Honor Quilt (also known as the International Quilting Bee) is a collective feminist art project initiated in 1980 by Judy Chicago as a companion piece to The Dinner Party. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The piece is a collection of 539 two-foot-long quilted triangles that honor women from around the world. [ 3 ]

3. Quilt - Wikipedia

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   Echo quilting, where a quilted outline of the appliqué pattern is repeated like ripples out to the edge of the quilt, is the most common quilting pattern employed on Hawaiian-style quilts. Beautiful examples are held in the collection of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum , Honolulu, Hawaii.

4. Corded quilting - Wikipedia

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   Corded quilting was popular for dresses, petticoats, and waistcoats as well as curtains and bedcoverings. [2] Originating in the fine whole-cloth quilt tradition of Provence in southern France, [ 4 ] corded quilting differs from the related trapunto quilting in which loose wadding or batting rather than cord is inserted to create raised designs.

5. Placemat - Wikipedia

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   Two household placemats, made with cork (top, Plancius's map) and wool (bottom) A placemat or table mat is a covering or pad designating an individual place setting, unlike the larger tablecloth that covers the entire surface. Placemats are made from many different materials, depending on their purpose: to protect, decorate, entertain or advertise.

6. Kilim motifs - Wikipedia

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   To create a sharp pattern, weavers usually end each pattern element at a particular thread, winding the coloured weft threads back around the same warps, leaving a narrow gap or slit. These are prized by collectors for the crispness of their decoration. The motifs on kilims woven in this way are constrained to be somewhat angular and geometric. [2]

7. Textile - Wikipedia

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   Natural and synthetic fibers are blended to overcome disadvantage of single fiber properties and to achieve better performance characteristics and aesthetic effects such as devoré, heather effect, cross dyeing and stripes pattern etc. Clothing woven from a blend of cotton and polyester can be more durable and easier to maintain than material ...