quilting

[ kwil-ting ]

noun

1. the act of a person who quilts.
2. material for making quilts.
3. a heavily padded wrapping, as for fragile cargo.

quilting

/ ˈkwɪltɪŋ /

noun

1. material used for making a quilt
2. the act or process of making a quilt
3. quilted work

Word History and Origins

Origin of quilting¹

First recorded in 1605–15; quilt + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Unlike the pay structure of the Freedom Quilting Bee of the 1960s — an artist-run collective that disbursed payment equitably to Gee’s Bend quilters, who were salaried and could set up Social Security benefits — one-off partnerships with companies like Target benefit only a small number of people, in this case five women from two families.

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The profit-oriented approach that emerged, which disrupted the Quilting Bee’s price-sharing structure, created “real rifts and disharmony within the community,” Turner explains, over engaging with collectors, art institutions and commercial enterprises.

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Repurposing fabric — from tattered blankets, frayed rags, stained clothes — is a central ethos of the community’s quilting practice, which resists commodification.

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Many third- and fourth-generation artists returned to quilting as adults for a creative and therapeutic outlet, as well as a tether to their roots.

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Jeanne Keller was in her shop The Quilting Jeanne located down the block from the campus that includes the middle school and another school building when she heard about five gunshots.

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