Quilts 1700-2010 opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London on the 20th March and I cant wait for this chance to see the V&A’s unseen quilt collection. Earliest examples include a sumptuous silk and velvet bedcover, with an oral narrative that links it to King Charles II’s visit to an Exeter manor house in the late 17th century. Recent examples will include works by leading artists such as Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin and commissions for the exhibition by a number of contemporary artists including Sue Stockwell and Caren Garfen.
If you want to go, book soon. It’s been one of the museum’s most heavily prebooked exhibition ever. Quilters are flocking to London from every part of the globe. Groups are flying in from Oz, North America and South Africa.
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