| To some people, a quilt typically is used
as comforter on cold nights. but to the people who made them, they often
think of them a masterpieces and to others they can tell stories. People's
thoughts about quilts vary greatly and none of them are incorrect. How
this type of coverlet came to be is simple; people needed to be warmer
during the night. Long ago, whatever cloth was available was usually
made into clothes for the family. So, to make a quilt, the women would
get scraps and arrange them in a way of a pattern or a way of being fair
to the eyes. As the years went by, textile plants opened and provided
women with more cloth. Still, most of it went to making clothing and
quilts continued to be made the same way. Nowadays, they are
made with new cloth. Occassionally, one might be make from scrap
cloth. |
