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  2. List of North American pieced quilt patterns - Wikipedia

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    Pinwheel [1] Roman Square [2] Roman Stripe [2] Rose of Sharon, or Whig Rose [1] School House [1] Sunbonnet Babies [1] [2] Tumbling Blocks [2] Wild Goose Chase [1] Quilt blocks on bank barn: Camelot Star, Irish Chain Block, Shoo Fly Block, Ohio Star and Maple Leaf Block.

  3. Quilts of Gee's Bend - Wikipedia

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    A 1979 quilt by Lucy Mingo of Gee's Bend, Alabama. It includes a nine-patch center block surrounded by pieced strips. The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River.

  4. Harriet Powers - Wikipedia

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    Pictorial Quilt 1898. Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) [1] was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to make quilts that expressed local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events. Powers married young and had a large family.

  5. Quilt - Wikipedia

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    A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber. Commonly three layers are used with a filler material. These layers traditionally include a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back combined using the techniques of quilting. This is the process of sewing on the face of ...

  6. Quilts of the Underground Railroad - Wikipedia

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    In Stitched from the Soul (1990), Gladys-Marie Fry asserted that quilts were used to communicate safe houses and other information about the Underground Railroad, which was a network through the United States and into Canada of "conductors", meeting places, and safe houses for the passage of African Americans out of slavery.

  7. Quilting - Wikipedia

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    Quilting. Quilted skirt (silk, wool and cotton – 1770–1790), Jacoba de Jonge-collection MoMu, Antwerp / Photo by Hugo Maertens, Bruges. Quilting is the process of joining a minimum of three layers of fabric together either through stitching manually using a needle and thread, or mechanically with a sewing machine or specialised longarm ...

  8. Baltimore album quilts - Wikipedia

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    Baltimore album quilts originated in Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1840s. They have become one of the most popular styles of quilts and are still made today. These quilts are made up of a number of squares called blocks. Each block has been appliquéd with a different design. The designs are often floral, but many other motifs are also used, such ...

  9. History of quilting - Wikipedia

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    Whole-cloth quilt, 18th century, Netherlands.Textile made in India. In Europe, quilting appears to have been introduced by Crusaders in the 12th century (Colby 1971) in the form of the aketon or gambeson, a quilted garment worn under armour which later developed into the doublet, which remained an essential part of fashionable men's clothing for 300 years until the early 1600s.

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