Quilting - is a type of women's crafts, a feature of which is to provide a solid product of the individual pieces of colorful cloth (patches) on the principle of mosaic. The process of work involves several stages: 1. Selection of patches; 2. Mapping (sketch); 3. Direct embroidery.
Patchwork technology is quite simple and does not require special skills and knowledge - first scraps sewn together, then, to the finished fabric is sewn lining.
Determine the age of patchwork quite difficult. The oldest of its manifestations were found in Scythian burial mounds. It is considered that the technique patchwork mosaic was born in England and in Europe has been brought from the East during the Crusades. In America, this kind of needlework has been developed in the late HUІІІ century with immigrants from Germany, Holland and England became a national favorite kind of creativity. In Russia, quilted fabric firmly established in the second half of the nineteenth century, when the sale there was a foreign cotton.