Italian Fabric stores
03-14-2015, 07:54 AM
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most of the quilt shops (mercerie, bricolage, tessuti) have expensive cotton, a good portion of their quilting cottons comes from the US at triple the price, but most of them have a great selections of accessories (ricracs, ribbons, bottons etc.)
03-14-2015, 07:59 AM
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They actually have quite a number of guilds or groups, the largest one with is Quilt Italia, it has several chapters thru Italy and they are very active with shows and on the internet, but there are several independent patchwork groups, I know of one in Bassano close to Vicenza who has a fantastic quilt show in and old castle every year, well attended.
03-14-2015, 01:57 PM
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My understanding is that patchwork quilting is not as big a hobby in Italy as it is here. I study the Italian language and my Italian-born teacher could not think of an Italian word which conveyed the idea of a patchwork quilt. Perhaps things have changed, but don't be surprised if quilting stores are hard to find.
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