ANST - Quilting in Period (WAS: Documnetation)
Lael Portwood
laepor at fisd.hub.ofthe.net
Mon Feb 22 08:09:13 PST 1999
Also, applique in quilting is period. And, one of the oldest forms of quilting is trapunto which is a decorative quilted design in high relief worked through at least two layers of cloth by outlining the design in running cloth padding it from the underside.
I believe that piecing is period. I have seen many examples in medieval art of clothing made from many different materials pieced together. Whether they were quilted or not was difficult to tell.
Ascelyn
>>> Margo Lynn Hablutzel <Hablutzel at compuserve.com> 02/22 7:34 AM >>>
> I'm also working on documenting quilts, among other things....
>>>> Quilting is definitely period. If by "quilting" you mean
>>>> piecework -- I haven't come across it in period, but I
>>>> haven't gone looking.
Piecework appears to be later. Quilting in period was wholecloth or
whitework; the examples I have seen used panels to tell a story, such as
from the Bible or a legend. The figured might be additionally padded for
better relief. I think the extant examples (the ones I remember anyway,
and I think I have photos somewhere) are in Italy.
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