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  2. Quilt - Wikipedia

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    Crib quilts for infants were needed in the cold of winter, but even early examples of baby quilts indicate the efforts that women made to welcome a new baby. Quilting bee in Central Park, 1973. Quilting was often a communal activity, involving all the women and girls in a family or in a larger community.

  3. Quilting - Wikipedia

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    The American quilt: A history of cloth and comfort, 1750-1950 (1993). LaPinta, Linda Elisabeth. Kentucky Quilts and Quiltmakers: Three Centuries of Creativity, Community, and Commerce (University Press of Kentucky, 2023) online review of this book. Torsney, Cheryl B., and Judy Elsley, eds. Quilt Culture: Tracing the Pattern. (U of Missouri ...

  4. 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.

  5. Marie Webster - Wikipedia

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    Marie Daugherty Webster (July 19, 1859 – August 29, 1956) was a quilt designer, quilt producer, and businesswoman, as well as a lecturer and author of Quilts, Their Story, and How to Make Them (1915), the first American book about the history of quilting, reprinted many times since.

  6. Feed sack dress - Wikipedia

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    As early as 1890 the first osnaburg sacks were recycled on farms to be used as toweling, rags, or other functional uses on farms. [2] [4] A paragraph in a short story in an 1892 issue of Arthurs Home Magazine said, "So, that is the secret of how baby looked so lovely in her flour sack: just a little care, patience and ingenuity on the mother's part."

  7. Wikipedia : WikiProject Textile arts

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    Librarian and Wikipedia research by day, knitter by night. I like to knit baby and children's clothing (sweaters, scarves, hats, mitts). MegaMom: Talk: I make a lot of my children's clothing by hand, particularly "fancy" dresses, which I love to design! Needlework has been my hobby since childhood.