QUILTING:

an overview
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• Quilting is a conventional sewing technique for clothing and
furnishings used in many places of the world for several
millenniums.
• Quilting is a classy needlework process where two or more
layers of fabric affixed together in a decorative pattern to
make a thicker useful padded substance.
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• Quilting is often merged with patchwork, embroidery,
applique, and other forms of needlework.
• Classic quilting can be done by three layers: the top fabric or
quilt top, batting or insulating material and backing material.
• The primary intention of quilting is to increase the density of
a particular substance which eventually add extra warmth to
the consumer’s body.
• Men who engage with quilting usually are called quilter.
Quilting is a complicated process that can be done by general
sewing machine or by a particular long-arm quilting machine
or by manual hand stitch.
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• The quilter’s hand or sewing machine goes by the needle and
thread from beginning to end of all layers and then takes the
needle back up.
• The practice is frequently repeated across the entire area where
quilting is required.
• A technique to cover a garment with a binding substance is
named padding. It is an essential sewing technique from the
ancient age.
• This sort of apparel which is quilted is used to provide warmness
to the human body. These warm types of wearers are popular in
cold countries like Canada, Russia, the USA and much more. The
temperatures of these countries are very low at almost less than
zero degrees.
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• While we wish to do quilting, we must think about quilting
thread.
• Quilting is an individual decorative task which needs the
finest quality of thread so that it will not tear during back
and forth of the stitching function.
• For hand quilting, plain cotton thread is always best. But for
machine quilting cotton or polyester or whatever we use,
then we should procure superior quality of thread.
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• Three methods are used in general quilting process like
backstitch, double running stitch and running stitch.
• These methods are used in automatic quilting. Back-stitch
quilting is the oldest technique introduced in the 1st century
in Siberian Rug. It is phenomenally faster and accurate.
• In addition, its operation is easy with raw cotton wadding.
Eventually, it flourishes dainty running stitch.
• Double running stitch was penetrated in the In-do-
Portuguese. The running stitch was used in the Siberian rug.
 HISTORY OF QUILTING
• Quilting sewing technique in which two layers of fabric,
usually with an insulating interior layer, are sewn together
with multiple rows of stitching.
• It has long been used for clothing in China, the Middle East,
North Africa, and the colder areas of Europe but is now
primarily associated with the construction of bed covers and
wall hangings.
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• Making a bed quilt is a multi step process that first involves
creating a quilt top, usually assembled of blocks made by
cutting patches then stitching them together or by
appliqueing cut-out shapes onto a backing.
• Batting, or wadding, made of cotton, polyester, wool, or
flannel is layered sandwich-style between the quilt top and
backing.
• The three layers are basted or pinned together, and the
quilting design is marked on the top and quilted (sewn) in
small, even stitches by hand, sewing machine, or commercial
quilting machine.
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• Quilting designs may be geometric or figural, and the quality of
the quilt depends in large part on the fineness of the stitching
and the matching of appropriate designs to the piecing.
• According to Robert Bishop’s and Jacqueline M. Atkins’s Folk Art
in American Life (1995), quilting “became known in Europe
during the Crusades, when it was learned that the Turks wore
several thicknesses of fabric quilted together under their armor.
• In northern Europe, where the climate is often harsh…this
technique offered warmth as well as protection, and it was
rapidly extended to bedcovers and various forms of clothing.”
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• Although small fragments of patchwork have been found in tomb
excavations in Asia and the Middle East, the earliest existing
quilts may be two large 14th-century whole cloth (i.e., entire, not
pieced) Sicilian pieces whose white work surfaces are heavily
embellished with trapunto, also known as corded or stuffed
quilting.
• North America’s strong quilting traditions undoubtedly crossed
the ocean with the first immigrants: quilted garments and
bedding appear in the crafts of many countries, including
Holland, France, Italy, and England. Only the wealthy could then
afford the elaborately block-printed and hand-painted fabrics and
the palampores, or Tree of Life coverlets, shipped by sailing
vessels from India.
1. What is the primary intention of quilting.
2. Enumerate and give the three layers in quilting.
3. Discuss in not less than five sentences the history of quilting.