Editing Quilt (section)

===Europe===
The [[history of quilting]] in Europe goes back at least to Medieval times. Quilting was used not only for traditional bedding but also for warm clothing. Clothing quilted with fancy fabrics and threads was often a sign of nobility.

====British quilts====
[[Henry VIII of England]]'s [[Inventory of Henry VIII of England|household inventories]] record dozens of "quyltes" and "coverpointes" among the bed linen, including a green silk one for his first wedding to [[Catherine of Aragon]], quilted with metal threads, linen-backed, and worked with [[rose]]s and [[pomegranate]]s.<ref name="lisa">{{Citation | last = Evans| first = Lisa| title = History of Medieval & Renaissance Quilting | url= http://www.historyofquilts.com/precolonial.html | access-date = June 2, 2010}}</ref>

An embroidered yellow silk quilt from [[Bengal]] dating from the 1620s, an early example of such fabric use in Britain, now held by the [[Colonial Williamsburg]] museum, has an ownership label of Catherine Colepeper, connecting it to [[Leeds Castle]] and the Smythe and Colepeper families. [[Thomas Smythe]], a brother of the owner of Leeds Castle, was a founder and governor of the English [[East India Company]].<ref>Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey, ''Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection'', (Yale, 2014), pp. 16–17.</ref>

Otherwise known as [[Durham, England|Durham]] quilts, North Country quilts have a long history in northeastern England, dating back to the [[Industrial Revolution]] and beyond. North Country quilts are often wholecloth quilts, featuring dense quilting. Some are made of sateen fabrics, which further heightens the effect of the quilting.

From the late 18th to the early 20th century, the [[Lancashire]] cotton industry produced quilts using a mechanized technique of weaving [[double cloth]] with an enclosed heavy cording weft, imitating the corded [[Provençal quilts]] made in [[Marseille]].{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

====Italian quilts====
Quilting was particularly common in Italy during the [[Renaissance]]. One particularly famous surviving example, now in two parts, is the 1360–1400 [[Tristan Quilt]], a [[Sicily|Sicilian]]-quilted linen textile representing scenes from the story of ''[[Tristan and Isolde]]'' and housed in the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] and in the [[Bargello]] in Florence.<ref name="tristan">[https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O98183/bed-cover-the-tristan-quilt/ The Tristan Quilt] in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Retrieved February 5, 2010</ref>

====Provençal quilts====
[[File:Boutis.jpg|thumb|Detail of a white cotton Provençal, or ''boutis'', quilting]]
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[[Provençal quilts]], now often referred to as "boutis" (the [[Provençal dialect|Provençal]] word meaning "stuffing"), are wholecloth quilts traditionally made in the [[South of France]] since the 17th century. Two layers of fabric are quilted together with stuffing sandwiched between sections of the design, creating a raised effect.<ref name="isa">{{Citation | last = Etienne-Bugnot| first = Isabelle| title = Quilting in France: The French Traditions | url= http://www.historyofquilts.com/french_quilt_history.html | access-date = May 2, 2010}}</ref> The three main forms of the Provençal quilt are ''matelassage'' (a double-layered wholecloth quilt with batting sandwiched between), corded quilting or ''piqûre de Marseille'' (also known as Marseille work or ''piqué marseillais''), and ''boutis''.<ref name="isa" /> These terms are often debated and confused, but are all forms of stuffed quilting associated with the region.<ref name="isa" />