They were once unloved and discarded as worthless old blankets. But after a boom in younger people taking up quilting during the pandemic and posting pictures of intricate throws on social media, ...
Museum curators are appealing for help about a little known Victorian tailor who made a prized piece of art, a Welsh quilt. The bed cover is made from 4,500 pieces of wool cloth and was created in ...
Colourful quilts and knitwear by renowned American textile artist Kaffe Fassett has gone on show in Wales in two separate exhibitions. KAFFE FASSETT’S quilts are an explosion of riotous colour and ...
Blooming Marvellous showcases many of the beautiful floral quilts that form part of the Welsh Heritage Quilt Collection which the association maintains. It has around 250 mainly Welsh quilts which ...
Where advertising slogans ("Chew Mail Pouch" and "See Rock City") once took precedence, a new art form -- the quilt square -- is springing up throughout southern Ohio. With tobacco no longer king, ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On a Friday afternoon at City Lit, an adult education institute near London’s Covent Garden, a group of women ...
WELSH dressers, skews, "Swansea Cottage", Nantgarw and lovespoons: these evocative names of Welsh antiques are common knowledge among trade and the general public alike. WELSH dressers, skews, ...
Quilt-lovers will have lots to love this week, with the “Antique Quilts in the Mansion” exhibit, held once every two years at Historic Poole Forge in Churchtown. The display, which opened Monday and ...
Teachers and pupils at a quilting class held in Aberdare Technical College around 1928-1929. The wholecloth quilt displayed on a frame was made and designed by one of the pupils. But after a boom in ...
But after a boom in younger people taking up quilting during the pandemic and posting pictures of intricate throws on social media, Welsh quilts are in vogue. Displayed in art galleries and museums, ...