Q - Quilts Past and Present
Welcome to 'Quilts Past and Present'!
In this section of our Learning Centre you can download free teachers' pack resources, developed with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The information sheets below answer some of the questions frequently asked by teachers and students. They are designed to support teachers beginning quilting or patchwork projects with their students and can be used to enhance the learning value of our Travelling Trunks.
Documents:
- What is a quilt? (939kb)
- Reviving quilting and patchwork in the 20th Century (806kb)
- Quilting and Patchwork in World War Two (1.12MB)
- Quilting and fundraising (722kb)
- When did quilting begin? (561kb)
- Why did people make quilts? (728kb)
- Are all quilters women? (961kb)
- Quilting in the Early Twentieth Century (956kb)
- What kind of fabric did people choose to make a quilt? Continued. (1.33MB)
- What kind of fabric did people choose to make a quilt? (910kb)
- An Interview with Kaffe Fassett (953kb)
- Interview with Lynne Edwards MBE (429kb)