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  2. Quilting - Wikipedia

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    Quilts tops were designed and pieced by one woman using scraps of hand-dyed cotton. This cotton often comes from old dresses or shawls. Once pieced, the quilt top is placed on a reed mat with the other layers and sewn together using thick, colored thread in straight parallel lines by members of the designer's family and community.

  3. 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.

  4. Quilt - Wikipedia

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    Quilts were frequently made to commemorate major life events, such as marriages. Fundraising quilt. Quilts were often made for other events as well, such as graduations, or when individuals left their homes for other communities. One example of this is the quilts made as farewell gifts for pastors; some of these gifts were subscription quilts.

  5. Eleanor Burns - Wikipedia

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    Burns first started stitching on her Aunt Edna's feed sacks. Her first book, Make a Quilt in a Day: Log Cabin Pattern, was self-published in 1978.The book has been credited with starting a quilt-making revolution as people learned Burns's style of stitching a quilt.

  6. Cotton paper - Wikipedia

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    Cotton paper is typically graded as 25%, 50%, or 100% cotton. Usually it can be checked by holding the cotton paper up to the light and looking just below the watermark for a number. 100% cotton paper may contain small amounts of acids, and should be tested or certified before use for archival documents.

  7. Patchwork - Wikipedia

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    Using this technique, quilts began to appear in households of the 11th to 13th centuries. [5] As the European climate became colder around this time, the incidence of the use of bed quilts rose, and so developed the practice of embellishing a simple cloth through the creation of pattern and design, alongside the development of decorative quilting.

  8. San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles - Wikipedia

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    The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. [1] Founded in 1977, the museum is the first in the United States devoted solely to quilts and textiles as an art form. [ 2 ]

  9. Quilts of Gee's Bend - Wikipedia

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    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. The quilting tradition can be dated back to the nineteenth century and endures to this day.

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