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2. Textile Museum of Canada - Wikipedia

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   The Textile Museum of Canada was founded as the Canadian Museum of Carpets and Textiles in 1975 by Max Allen and Simon Waegemaekers. Located above an ice cream shop in Mirvish Village the museum's collection was initially based on textiles collected during business trips.

3. Mary Ellen Hopkins - Wikipedia

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   In 1977, Hopkins opened a quilt shop in Santa Monica called Crazy Ladies and Friends. Hopkins' short book, The Double Wedding Ring Book, was released in 1981 and her first full-length book, The It's Okay If You Sit on My Quilt Book, in 1982. She founded a company, ME Publishing First Printing, to publish the latter.

4. San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles - Wikipedia

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   The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is the United States' oldest museums of textiles.. The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles (SJMQT) had its beginnings as the American Museum of Quilts and Related Arts, founded in Los Altos, California by the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association in 1977.

5. Ontario Mills - Wikipedia

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   Ontario Mills is a shopping and outlet mall located in Ontario, California, within the Los Angeles metropolitan area. [2] With 28 million annual visitors, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] it is one of the top shopping and tourist destinations in California .

6. 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.

7. Quilt of Belonging - Wikipedia

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   The Quilt of Belonging is a collaborative textile arts project initiated by Canadian artist Esther Bryan. [ 1 ] The 120-foot (37 m) long by 10.5-foot (3.2 m) high (36 metres by 3.5 metres) tapestry includes 263 quilt blocks, [ 2 ] and portrays the cultural legacies of Canada’s First Peoples and of every nation in the world, all of which are ...