Knowra Quilting Quilting Quilting is the practice of stitching fabric layers together, usually with a padded filling between them. The stitching secures the layers and can create decorative patterns.
Quilt sandwich : The layered assembly of a quilt top, batting, and backing, prepared for quilting. These three layers form the structure that quilting stitches hold together.
Patchwork : A textile construction method that joins pieces of fabric into a larger design. Patchwork builds the quilt top; quilting stitches that top to its backing and filling.
Bayeux Tapestry : An embroidered linen narrative made in the eleventh century depicting the Norman Conquest of England. Its stitched surface is often mistaken for quilting, but it is embroidery without a padded layer.
Quilt : A layered textile, usually made with a top, filling, and backing joined by stitching. A quilt is the best-known finished object made through quilting.
Quilting bee : A social gathering at which people work together to assemble or stitch a quilt. Collective quilting made textile production a setting for sociability and mutual aid.
Batting : A soft filling placed between textile layers for warmth, loft, or cushioning. Its fiber, thickness, and density affect a quilt’s warmth and stitchability.
Textile : A flexible material made by interlacing, interlooping, or bonding fibers or yarns. Quilting is a way of constructing and decorating a textile.
Wholecloth quilt : A quilt whose top is made from one or a few large pieces of fabric rather than patchwork. Wholecloth quilts show how quilting patterns can carry the design without pieced blocks.
Quilted clothing : Garments made with stitched layers of fabric and insulating or cushioning filling. Quilting turns layered textiles into wearable insulation and structure.
Quilts of Gee's Bend : A body of quilts made by Black women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, across generations. Their recognition connects quilting traditions with authorship, community, and art institutions.
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