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How can you buy QUILTS online?

  Traditionally quilts  are manufactured in 3 layers: Top Layer, Batted Layer and Bottom Layer. The top layer is made up of different types of fabrics while the batted layer is made up of solid wool or cotton and the bottom layer is made up of thick fabric, which is sewn together with other two layers. According to Robert Bishop’s and Jacqueline M. Atkins’s “Folk art in American Life”, quilting became known in Europe during the Christianity era. In the Northern Europe where the climate is often harsh, quilting offer warmth as well as protection from dust. In Asia and Middle East, the earliest quilts  were very large pieces of cloth. The invention of swing machines in 1840’s radically changed the manufacturing of quilts . In 1974 an international quilt festival was organised in Houston, Taxas.   Quilts  are an integral part of many world cultures in the form of an artistic expression. They are sometimes designed as blankets but they are different from the latter....