Old 04-15-2011, 08:54 AM
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milleroch
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Someone mentioned the "quilt police." I read about this some 15 years ago so excuse me if I get some facts incorrectly related here.
Did you know that there really were quilt police in (I believe) southern Italy? I cannot recall but there is a town that is historically famous for the first whole quilts...even under garments and bodices of the very wealthy were quilted. The work is amazingly beautiful.
The "whole quilt" movement was stopping sale of other related products so the merchants paid the mayor of this town to get a law passed.
It was illegal to have anything "whole quilted." So the story goes, the police would stand outside the windows of wealthy people having parties and arrest anyone wearing something whole quilted...hence "quilt police." (If you are interested, and it is an interesting story, look at the history of quilting.)
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