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3. Joyce J. Scott - Wikipedia

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   Joyce J. Scott (born 1948) is an African-American artist, sculptor, quilter, performance artist, installation artist, print-maker, lecturer and educator.Named a MacArthur Fellow in 2016, [1] [2] and a Smithsonian Visionary Artist in 2019, [3] Scott is best known for her figurative sculptures and jewelry using free form, off-loom beadweaving techniques, similar to a peyote stitch. [4]

4. Longarm quilting - Wikipedia

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   Longarm quilting is the process by which a longarm sewing machine is used to sew together a quilt top, quilt batting and quilt backing into a finished quilt.. A complete longarming system typically consists of a sewing machine head, a frame, a table with a layer of plastic (under which is placed a pantograph), and several rollers on which the fabric layers and batting are attached.

5. Quilting - Wikipedia

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   Quilting templates/patterns come in many varieties and are generally considered the basis of the structure of the quilt, like a blueprint for a house. Bias binding or bias tape can be made from strips of quilt fabric or purchased as quilt binding. It is used in the last stage of making a quilt, and is a method of covering the edges of the quilt.

6. Trapunto quilting - Wikipedia

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   The collar on this uniform from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan employs the trapunto method. [1] Trapunto, from the Italian for "to quilt", is a method of quilting that is also called "stuffed technique". A puffy, decorative feature, trapunto utilizes at least two layers, the underside of which is slit and padded, producing a raised surface on ...

7. A Stitch for Time - Wikipedia

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   Following the footsteps of those from the American Civil War and both World Wars, quiltmakers during the Cold War made quilts related to the conflict. Conceived in the early 80s, it began with one quilt expressing solidarity with Soviet women against nuclear proliferation and believed that they were a less abrasive way to encourage peace and piece together alienated societies.

8. 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 ]

9. 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.