There is a great article I read about the amish and asian quilt connection at the quilters newsletter website www.qnm.com
it is in this Issue No. 387 November 2006
Vol. 37, No. 9
Reading this article confirmed for me what my friend Sarah told me.
I agree the shipped quilts are taking advantage of low wage labor and I would not buy one either. General American's in the age of Walmart, do not value American handcrafted quilts But you should see how many are valued that are 100 or more years old. They want them all to look new again because they have real value! So all of you current quilt makers know in your heart that your current new quilts will live on for at least 100 yrs ahead of now and unfortunatly they will THEN be worth alot of money