Quilts, bed coverings made by stitching layers of cloth together, among them one of the earliest surviving medieval examples and the improvised designs made by a group of women in an isolated Alabama community. A work belongs here when the cited article calls it a quilt or a group of quilts. It excludes tapestries and woven carpets. The group follows the form the cited article names for the work. Both are held up as examples of folk and women's art that became recognised as fine art.
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Tristan Quilt, Wikipedia
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The Tristan Quilt, sometimes called the Tristan and Isolde Quilt or the Guicciardini Quilt, is one of the earliest surviving quilts in the world.
Quilts of Gee's Bend (Wikipedia)
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The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama, along the Alabama River.
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