A quilt designed to cover a bed; a padded blanket with decorative stitching used for warmth and cover.
Compound of 'bed' (Old English 'bedd') and 'quilt' (from Old French 'cuilte', from Latin 'culcita', mattress). Describes the quilt's primary use.
American bedquilts became folk art—families preserved stories, dates, and memories in every stitch, and 'quilt bees' where women gathered to stitch became essential social events in frontier communities.
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