Originally Posted by TanyaL

I have books by quilters who have quilts in museum collections. This seems to be a high recommendation of their skills and quality of their work, and they all have used unusual fabric, usually hand woven fabric from very out of the way places in other countries, a variety of types of fabrics such as velvet, wool, satin, etc. The one thing they all say about the fabric is that it has to have a reason to be chosen. By itself it has to have a reason to be in the quilt, usually because of the texture or unusual color. If it is not tightly woven then they stablize it. The one thing all the quilters seem to say is that there is NO fabric that does not go into their quilts if they like the fabric.
If they can use any fabric, so can we if we are willing to do what is necessary to make it useable.