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This year’s festival theme, “Honour the Past, Embrace the Future,” has led me to reflect on quilting’s rich history. While we often speak of sustainability as a modern goal, quilting has long been rooted in resourcefulness—recycling and repurposing fabric out of necessity.

At first, I expected my historical research to be somewhat dry—but what I uncovered was anything but. Quilting’s past is woven with intrigue, politics, science, and geography, all shaping how quilters have expressed themselves through the centuries.

Author: Y. Bilan-Wallace