Woman Is A Quilt
For millennia women through out the world have spent their 'spare time' making quilts. A quilt is a bed covering or garment, that consists of three layers of fabric; A top, the batting, and the backing/lining. In Raymond Bial's With Needle and Thread He states, "the first known depiction of quilting is from 3400 B.C. and features an Egyptian pharaoh wearing a quilted garment". (Bial 18). It is believed decorative quilting came to Europe from Asia during the Crusades (A.D. 1100-1300), because the textile arts were more developed in China and India then in the West."Until the Industrial Revolution of the 1800's, women raised sheep for wool and grew flax and cotton". (Bial 18). From these sources were made thread and
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Approximate Word count = 499
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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