mar32428

At the first local quilt show I attended years ago, I saw my first whole cloth quilt in white. It was 1976 and the design was bicentennial. It had Nixon's face as the center with the statue of liberty, white house etc. all quilted as pictures. It was the most lovely thing I have ever seen even to this day. There was no color. Just those beautiful quilted pictures. I wonder today where it might be. It deserved to be hung in a museum.

hilda Vest

Whole-cloth quilts showcase your quilting expertise because they're not cut-up pieces. The design is what's beautiful I believe the origin of such quilts is France.

Borntohandquilt

You are almost right, France (the Provence) has a very old tradition of wholecloth quilts called Boutis. Many of these quilts are made in the 17th century. But the evidence of something like wholecloth quilts are much older! In the 20th of the last century a quilted carpet was found on the floor of a tomb in Siberia and it is probably made during the period of the first century B.C. and the second century A.D.
Probably the oldest examples of domestic quilting are three quilts made at the end of the 14th century with a Sicilian origin. One of the quilts is now in London in the possession of the Victory & Albert Museum, the second is in the Bargello Museum of Florence and the third in private ownership in Florence.

zz-pd

I love this thread. thank you for all the history. and the quilts on here are stunning. One of these days I think I will learn to hand quilt. God bless. Penny

Campbell34

At my last quilters meeting I saw a quilt that was old and had been stained , She said she cleaned it up with something called Restorative, I haven't looked it up yet, just got back from a trip to the North Rim Grand Canyon this afternoon, What a trip.