quilt
Sign in to savethumb|1940 photograph by Russell Lee (photographer)|Russell Lee of Mrs. Bill Stagg of Pie Town, New Mexico, with state quilt
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45 sectionsContents
- Uses
- Traditions
- Techniques
- Patchwork and piecing
- Appliqué
- Reverse appliqué
- Quilting
- Trapunto
- Embellishment
- English paper piecing
- Foundation piecing
- Intarsia
- Quilting styles
- North America
- Amish
- Baltimore album
- Crazy quilts
- African-American
- Story quilts
- Pictorial quilts
- Barn quilts
- Hawaiian
- Native American star quilts
- Seminole patchwork
- Europe
- British quilts
- Italian quilts
- Provençal quilts
- Asia
- China
- Japan: Sashiko
- Bangladeshi quilts
- India: Kantha, Ralli, and Balaposh — the unquilted scented quilt
- Africa, Oceania and South America
- Cook Islands: Tivaevae quilts
- Egyptian khayamiya
- Kuna: Mola textiles
- Block designs
- Quilting technique
- Quilts on display
- In literature
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|1940 photograph by Russell Lee (photographer)|Russell Lee of Mrs. Bill Stagg of Pie Town, New Mexico, with state quilt
A quilt is a multi-layered textile, traditionally composed of two or more layers of fabric or fiber. Commonly three layers are used with a filler material. These layers traditionally include a woven cloth top, a layer of batting or wadding, and a woven back combined using the techniques of quilting. This is the process of sewing on the face of the fabric, and not just the edges, to combine the three layers together to reinforce the material. Stitching patterns can be a decorative element. A single piece of fabric can be used for the top of a quilt (a "whole-cloth quilt"), but in many cases the top is created from smaller fabric pieces joined, or patchwork. The pattern and color of these pieces creates the design. Quilts may contain valuable historical information about their creators, "visualizing particular segments of history in tangible, textured ways".