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2. Baltimore album quilts - Wikipedia

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   An album quilt (c. 1850), part of the collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. 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.

3. Nakshi kantha - Wikipedia

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   Quilt, 19th century, cotton and wool. Nakshi kantha. Nakshi kantha, a type of embroidered quilt, is a centuries-old Bengali art tradition of the Bengal region, notably in Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, and parts of Assam. [1] [2] [3] The basic materials used are thread and old cloth. [4]

4. 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.

5. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt - Wikipedia

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   Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...

6. Comparison of embroidery software - Wikipedia

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   Embroidery software is software that helps users create embroidery designs. While a large majority of embroidery software is specific to machine embroidery , there is also software available for use with hand embroidery techniques, such as cross-stitch .

7. Sampler (needlework) - Wikipedia

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   An American sampler: "Margaret Barnholt her sampler done in the twelth [sic] year of her age 1831". English band sampler featuring 'boxers', c. 1650 A needlework sampler is a piece of embroidery or cross-stitching produced as a 'specimen of achievement', [1] demonstration or a test of skill in needlework.