300 Years of Canada's Quilts Author:Mary Conroy Quilting is now recognized as a genuine folk art with unique customs, superstitions and traditions. Although there is a huge resurgence of interest in quilting by quilters and collectors of antique quilts, the methods, the folklore and examples of quilts made in the early years of our country are rapidly fading away. An urgent need was felt to c... more »ompile and preserve this information as a vital part of our cultural heritage, to arrange and interpret this information so that it may be used by quilters, home economics teachers and students, as well as those people interested in Canadiana.
It is just as wrong to say that there is nothing distinctly 'Canadian' about Canadian quilts as it is to say that there is nothing distinctive about English as it is spoken in Canada. The differences are subtle, but they are real.« less