The stitches are usually based on a pattern or design. The earliest quilting was used to make bed covers: very fine quilts are often mentioned in medieval inventories and frequently became family ...

From luxurious 17th-century courtly robes to a quilt stitched by 21st-century prison inmates, the V&A holds a rich variety of objects created through quilting and patchwork – two distinct but ...

The pair opened a quilt that Wormly had made, revealing a mosaic of small textiles stitched together into concentric rectangles. (Some of Wormly’s quilts hang onstage, in the Jernigan house.) ...