Concours International du Carrefour Européen du Patchwork
The International Carrefour Contest offers an exceptional showcase to all quilters around the world. A theme is born from the imagination of the Carrefour organizers every year in the fall. It leads to a new edition of the competition, open to all patchwork enthusiasts. Several months of imagination and creation are required for each participant […]
Carmen Netto
Carmen Netto is passionate about art. She began her career in illustration and graphic design, but it was in textile art that she found her true means of expression.Whether evident or subtle, geometric shapes have always been present in her work, and their study plays an intriguing role in her creations.Freedom in color usage, improvisation, […]
Charles-Édouard de Broin & Géraldine Chouard
Charles-Edouard de Broin, a passionate collector of American patchwork, owns more than 250 quilts, exhibited in renowned venues such as the Fondation des États-Unis or the 5th arrondissement Town Hall in Paris.Author of “Les Mille bonheurs d’un chercheur de quilts” (Quiltmania, 2019), he is known for his lectures and exhibitions, shedding light on the history […]
Brasilidade
Brasilidade is a group formed by 18 Brazilian artists: Estela Mota, Verônica Abad, Rosa Fiuza Faria, Marina Landi, Myrian Melo, Monika Wutzl, Carmen Netto, Silvia Rohden, Valeria Cervetto, Aparecida Barbosa, Dulce Magalhaes, Sarah Luise Kaminski, Dóris Teixeira, Fabia Diniz, Rute Sato, Adriana H. M. U. Sleutjes, Eva Malinowski, and Sandra Caruso.As an exhibition curator, art […]
ASL de Lièpvre
The Sports and Leisure Association of Lièpvre has around 150 members.It is a dynamic and sporty local association, with a patchwork section that includes around fifty people, both adults and children.
Anne Bellas
Anne lives in Nantes, Brittany. She taught languages in several European countries and only discovered textile paintings in 2015. It quickly became a total passion.She uses some commercial cottons, but mainly cotton and linen sheets and tablecloths inherited from her great-grandmother, which she dyes or prints before piecing and quilting.Anne’s paintings are not very figurative, […]
Ana Helena Abreu
Ana Helena Abreu teaches patchwork and quilting in São Gabriel, a small town in the interior of Brazil, near the border with Uruguay and Argentina.Since childhood, unable to reach the pedal of the sewing machine, she was already sewing standing up at the age of four, encouraged by her grandmother. Drawn to manual work from […]
AFHAM
After World War II, the “Anabaptist Mennonites” of France realized the importance of remembering their past. This is when the French Association of Anabaptist Mennonite History (AFHAM) was created on June 4, 1979, in the Vosges region. It is managed by historians, sociologists, theologians, and other enthusiasts of the original history of this movement. AFHAM […]