Olivia Joseph
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Feb
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bed coverings.
They look kind of like what people used as hippie bedspreads in the 60s.
I don't know if that makes any sense.
Yeah, yeah.
They were so attractive that the spice traders and the tea traders took them with them back to England.
and France.
And then the women in England loved these new bed coverings.
And then they would send back word and say, we really like those.
Could we have them in colors that would suit our decor?
And so then the craftspeople in India started making them.
It was a commercial thing.
And it was primarily done by men doing the weaving and the printing.
of the fabrics.
By the late 1700s, it was part of your repertoire, if you were a tailor, to make a quilt.
There were shops full of men and women quilting fabric by the yard that you could buy for a quilted skirt, quilted petticoat, or a waistcoat, anything that tailors would then make, or even quilted bed coverings.
That was the first ones that were done along the East Coast were for the well-to-do women that could afford the stupid amount of labor.
Because, I mean, if you're cold, you're not going to cut fabric into a thousand little pieces and sew them back together by hand.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, exactly.
That doesn't make any sense.
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