How quilts are made


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Brief History of Quilting

Quilting is the art of stitching throughhomelands in Europe. By the 1700s the more
padding that has been placed between 2 layerswealthy ladies were making their quilts from
of cloth. It was believed to have beenpieces of silk, linen and wool and these
invented by the Americans in the 19thbecame known as Crazy Quilts. In fact quilts
Century. However this is not true. In fact,and bedding were highly prized by families
quilting has been around in Egypt since 3,400during the 1700 and 1800's and would be
BC. Certainly one of the earliest examplespassed  down  from  generation to generation.
to be found of quilting was that of a carved
ivory figure of an Egyptian pharaoh from theBy the middle of the 1800's, because of the
1st Dynasty. The figure was supposedlyinvention of the cotton gin, this fabric
wearing a quilted mantle and certainlybegun to be manufactured not just in Europe
quilting was probably used as layers inbut in the US as well. It was then that
clothing  in  order  to  keep  a person warm.patchwork quilting patterns became the vogue.
Only the more wealthy quilters would be able
In fact many early forms of quilting were notto buy cotton in its various shades and then
used for bedding but rather as clothing incut it up into geometric shapes which they
order to keep a person warm. Only later oncould then sew together in blocks.
did people decide that it was the idealOriginally only very simple designs were used
solution for keeping themselves warm at nightsuch as squares, rectangles and triangles,
as well. In Europe in colonial times thebut as time progressed the designs being
soldiers of this time resisted wearing armorproduced were much more daring and fanciful.
and instead turned to padded quilted clothingBut with the invention of the locked stitch
instead  to  provide  them  with  protection.sewing machine a woman was able to put
together a quilt much more quickly than they
Then by the 1600's colonists who had moved tohad been able to previously when sewing their
America were also bringing their quiltingquilting fabric together by hand.
skills and styles with them from their



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