An Australian quilt sold in Melbourne for $70,000.00 - depends what people are willing to pay. You can read the article here:

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8181169

Art Quilt. Whole different animal...

Yea but its PAINTED! If all the detail work was done with thread, and fabric, I would be in aww. IT IS PAINTED. and for that price, it had better be painted with real gold!

Check out the web site www.etsy.com. It is a forum for all kinds of hand made items. You will be amazed at the quilts and the prices. Of course, you never know how long some of the items have been listed and not sold.

I saw a quilter's blog where a gal had sold her quilt for $20,000, she didn't announce it until she had the money in the bank. It was an extraordinary work of art and I'm willing to bet it is hanging, framed, in a high end professional office building somewhere.

I have seen quilts of more talent on this board. I do not mean to say the one listed above, is in any way not a very nice quilt, but I can say there are many posted on this board that could sell for more-IMHO

that is too funny :lol:

I'd buy it if I had the money. It's beautiful and I imagine the work put into it was as much as a great painting.

This quilt is is North Wales PA!! Not UK!!!

I absolutely agree - and if you work out her hourly rate (there's a lot of hand work in there) she's probably on minimum wage or less. This is a piece of art and should be viewed as such. You can't compare it to an everyday bed quilt.