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2. Eleanor Burns - Wikipedia

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   Eleanor Burns (born July 3, 1945, in Zelienople, Pennsylvania) is a master quilter [1] and former TV series host of Quilt in a Day, which aired in 1994 on PBS for six seasons. [ 2 ] Career

3. List of quilters - Wikipedia

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   Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of quilters - notable people who are known for their quilts or quilting. ... Eleanor Burns; Bisa Butler; C

4. Bargello (needlework) - Wikipedia

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   Two examples of Bargello patterns (Florentine work). The top is a typical curved Bargello motif. The bottom image is a "flame stitch" motif similar to that found in the Bargello museum chairs. Bargello is a type of needlepoint embroidery consisting of upright flat stitches

5. 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.

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7. 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.