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Cuesta Benberry (September 8, 1923 – August 23, 2007) was an American historian and scholar. [1] Considered to be one of the pioneers of research on quiltmaking in America, she was the pioneer of research on African-American quiltmaking.
Quilter in Bazaar of Nishapur, Iran Women of Gee's Bend, Alabama quilting, 2005 Quilted skirt (silk, wool and cotton – 1770–1790), Jacoba de Jonge-collection MoMu, Antwerp / Photo by Hugo Maertens, Bruges.
Woman sewing a tivaevae, Rarotonga Tivaevae or tivaivai (Cook Islands Māori: tīvaevae) in the Cook Islands, tifaifai in French Polynesia, is a form of artistic quilting traditionally done by Polynesian women.
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.
1940 photograph by Russell Lee of Mrs. Bill Stagg of Pie Town, New Mexico, with state quilt [1]. A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber.
The quilt is formed of three layers: the patchwork quilt top, a layer of insulation wadding (), and a layer of backing material.These three layers are stitched together ("quilted"), either by hand or machine.
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