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From The Quilt Journal - An International Review, Vol. 3, No. 1.

1994

By: Janniere, Janine

Editor Notes: French scholar Janine Janniere, following a lead unearthed in her study of European, and particularly French, quilting has brought to light a description and documentation of an extremely important piece of early French patchwork. She presents here the history of the textile, a singular illumination in a half millenium period for which we have practically no data on quilts, quilting or patchwork in Europe.