Quilts Patchwork

The equipment a patchwork,quilt is known for a long time. She has gained the development in Africa and Asia for the purpose of production of dense clothes, for cleaning off in the period of cold seasons. The patchwork has gained further distribution in Europe at the time of the Middle Ages when the crusaders who are coming back from the East protected themselves from not conveniences of an iron armor the clothes consisting of several layers of quilted material. In Spain such material for church vestments, in Italy for tailoring of suits, horse equipment or decoration of fabrics. Over time the equipment a patchwork becomes more and more refined, and silk joins modest cotton, the embroidery and finishing materials is added. From usual craft she turns into art. England was engaged in a patchwork in the whole families. Such important event as, for example, a wedding, gave the chance of a rodstvenna Kam to meet during production of a quilt. The English, French and Dutch colonists have transferred this equipment to the New World, selling the things brought from Europe. The equipment was gradually improved, and to old prisoyedinya new models yutsyatsya. Products a patchwork reflected events lives and in certain cases became even the story. Each American girl who married received as a gift a scrappy blanket of the bride which was made on the occasion of a wedding by women of a family and neighbors.