| Quilting is an ancient activity, present in many cultures | | | | well-preserved sample is dated 15th century and you |
| and each of these cultures influencing its development | | | | can observe here the parent of the quilting stitch |
| and particularity through time. The quilts became the | | | | represented by the coarse line and embroidery. The |
| expression of their maker's feelings, the witness of | | | | 17th century gives us the first bed covering the Levens |
| historical events or happy moments in simple people's | | | | Hall, made from imported Indian chintzes. The details |
| lives. From its beginning until the present days, quilting | | | | and the exquisite craft design indicate it as an example |
| had its ups and downs. Today, the development of the | | | | of high quality quilting, not just an ordinary bed covering. |
| textiles industry and those of the machines and | | | | When colonists brought the first patchwork-quilted |
| accessories used in making the quilts, the improved | | | | products in America, they did not know how much this |
| techniques of quilting have transformed this simple | | | | art would develop here. American women saw the |
| activity into a true art. The oldest quilt was comes | | | | great advantages of quilting, the functionality and the |
| from ancient Egypt and it consists in a clothing item | | | | artistic experience of quilts and decided to expand and |
| found on the statue of an Egyptian pharaoh, who lived | | | | improve the scarce samples brought by the colonists. |
| around the year 3400 before Jesus Christ. The | | | | Therefore, they started to create interesting |
| technique used in quilting stitches was also found in | | | | geometrical designs that became very popular in the |
| decorative objects from Middle eve churches. It is | | | | 1880's fairs and competitions. Long with the modern |
| considered that the Templar Knights themselves took | | | | sawing techniques of the 20th century, the traditional |
| over the idea of quilted garments from the Muslim | | | | craft of quilted bed coverings, table coverings or child |
| soldiers, who used it to replace parts of their armour | | | | comforts slightly decreased. Cheap and |
| when the metal was not enough. In America, the ones | | | | mass-produced garments and comforters replaced |
| who have brought and developed quilting were the | | | | the original quilted bed coverings. The 1960's brought |
| Dutch and the English colonists, who made three laired | | | | the remerge of the quilting activity in the southern |
| clothes to protect them from cold and, from the | | | | areas of the United States and the tradition was once |
| remains of the fabrics they made bed coverings. This | | | | again brought back to life and passed from one |
| happened in the early 12th century and there are some | | | | generation to another. It took almost 20 years, until |
| written records about the quilting craft and the | | | | 1980, to make the art of quilting be re-appreciated and |
| designed used in those times, but few samples were | | | | practiced all over the country by passions women, |
| found because the fabrics were perishable. Though, a | | | | even became a flowering business. |