ON THE AMERICAN QUILT

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December/January 1998
By Daphne Taylor 
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"The oldest known European quilts are three trapunto examples from Sicily. Two, the Guicciardini set, show scenes from the Tristan legend and were probably made in the 1390s. The third may have been made a few years before that and also has Tristan and Iseult in a central medallion ...with an overall border of the Seven Deadly Sins."

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A historic record of quilt making can also be found in the paintings of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, a time when quilting matured into an art form as well as a means of keeping warm. And in an age when a suit of armor cost the equivalent of a new home today, several layers of quilted garments were used as an inexpensive and more flexible armor substitute. Similar garments and quilted armor can be found in Eastern cultures as well.

Daphne Taylor teaches drawing and fiber arts at the Friends Seminary in New York. Currently, there are over 20, 000 Web sites devoted to quilting, but the most comprehensive we found is the World Wide Quilting Page which can be found at http://ttsw.com/MainQuiltingPage.html.

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