A piece of cloth forming the underside of a quilt. May be several pieces seamed together. A brand of commercial thread sometimes used to tack, or tie, quilts. The diagonal direction on a piece of woven cloth.
Cloth stretches more along the bias than in the directions parallel to the woven threads.
One of a number of techniques for encasing the raw edges of a quilt. A basic unit of quilt construction, usually in the form of a square, which is typically repeated and combined in rows to form a quilt top. This technique, very popular during the late 1970s, creates a fancy, finished bedcover which does not require quilting. A thick, heavy quilt, designed to provide warmth. A general term for a bedspread, that is, a textile intended to serve as the visible top layer when a bed is made up with several layers of bedcovers.