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Please see MAQS - The Museum of the American Quilter's Society

Quinobi 08:50, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)


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[edit] American vs. British English

I see "compostannie" changed "wadding" to "batting", saying that wadding was incorrect term. In fact, the British sewing books I have use the term wadding. So it is not wrong. Likewise, words such as muslin and calico have different definitions in British English vs. American English usage.

[edit] Merging of Art quilt article

Discussion:

  • MERGE: Its totally mergeable, probably verbatim. The Quilt article will improve and be more interesting. Removal of the Art quilt article, and redirection to Quilt, will not suffer readership. --SFDan 05:03, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
  • Regarding merging the 'Comforter' and 'Quilt' articles: I'm not sure this would be a good idea ... Are all comforters quilted? I thought not (but may be incorrect). Hh 19:28, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
  • These two articles should not be merged. A comforter is typically not quilted and is primarily used for decoration not warmth. -Nv8200p talk 03:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
  • do not merge NV8200p is exactly right. Cornell Rockey 14:54, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Quilting vs Knotting or Tying.

Nowadays the meaning of Quilt has gotten rather blurred. As I learned it, a Quilt is two pieces of fabric with batting between them secured by sewing through all layers in a pattern. If you knot or tie it's not a Quilt, even if the top is pieced or appliqued. The term Quilt refers to the technique of sewing, not to the item. Quilted Comforter or Quilted Spread would be a more exact description, as would Knotted or Tied Comforter. Still, the term has gotten so blurry that it's no good trying to fix things. "Aids Quilt" is easier to say that Aids Memorial Fabric Artwork.--Saxophobia 18:15, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Art Quilt Links

I thought that the Quilt National and QuiltArt links were good balances for the other links in that they have galleries of contemporary, often non-traditional quilts which demonstrate some of what is happening in the "art quilt" world. In addition, the QuiltArt pages contain galleries of individual artists' works and a long-standing archive of messages from an active community.

I guess I don't understand the presence of the Vermont Quilt Festival but not the International Quilt Festival or other large quilt shows in the UK or Japan (the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival for example has about 250K visitors at recent shows). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mbquilts (talk • contribs) 18:07, 8 October 2006.

You are right, there isn't really a good reason to have the Vermont Quilt Festival link either - I've removed it. We've still got rather too many external links here - see WP:EL for guidelines. It is not correct to include links to sites that happen to be related to quilts and quilting. Idealy, as much information as possible should be included in the article, but it is valid to include links to material that can't be incorporated for copyright reasons, or which provide useful, non-commercial further reading or background that goes beyond the appropriate scope of an encyclopedia article. -- Solipsist 18:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of people in quilting

I have tagged this section for cleanup of external links. A few issues:

  • the persons listed should meet notability requirements
  • links within the body of an article should be internal (wikipedia) links; external website links belong in an External links section
  • articles should not contain links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services

See WP:LINKS for further info. Maralia 03:04, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Emotions section

This says: "Quilts focused on the September 11, 2001 attacks have particularly explored grief and anger". Without being insensitive, I can't for the life of me see how a quilt can do this. I can get how a poem or a piece of drama, or even a painting, might convey these sorts of emotions, but sewn-together patches of fabric in an abstract pattern? Can this section be expanded to explain how these quilts manage to do this? As it is, it just sounds like pseudish, artsy nonsense. Cheers, Neale Neale Monks 17:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

For anyone who wants to take on the task of expanding the section, this book would be a good resource, documenting a special exhibition at IQF in Houston. Neale's reaction shows why a major expansion of the Art Quilt section is in order, if someone thinks a painting can convey something a quilt can't. :) --Fabrictramp 18:55, 16 September 2007 (UTC)