France Patchwork
Founded in 1984, France Patchwork is the national association dedicated to promoting and developing quilting in France. With nearly 5,000 members in France and internationally, it brings together enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds who share a common ambition: to transmit, share, and advance this demanding and vibrant textile art. Through its regional branches, friendship days, training […]
EQA – European Quilters Association
EQA, the European Quilt Association, is a collaborative network uniting European patchwork guilds beyond national boundaries. Bringing together 20 member guilds, it promotes quilting across borders, cultures, and languages while creating meaningful opportunities for exchange and visibility among European quilters. Through annual themed competitions that are open and non-juried, EQA encourages broad participation and creative […]
France Patchwork
Founded in 1984, France Patchwork is the national association dedicated to promoting and developing quilting in France. With nearly 5,000 members in France and internationally, it brings together enthusiasts from diverse backgrounds who share a common ambition: to transmit, share, and advance this demanding and vibrant textile art. Through its regional branches, friendship days, training […]
Émilie Trahan
Émilie Trahan is a Québec-based textile artist whose practice centers on improvisational quiltmaking. Her work highlights the reuse of everyday textiles—sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths, garments—echoing the origins of patchwork. Through this connection to the past and to the very fabric of our lives, she seeks to reveal her intuitions of an intangible, immaterial world hidden behind […]
Ellen Remijnse (EQP Textiles) & Kristel Salgarollo
Since 1991, Kristel Salgarollo has been teaching and practicing patchwork in Belgium and abroad. A long-standing contributor to Les Éditions de Saxe, notably for Magic Patch and Quilt Country, she has developed a rich and distinctive artistic universe over the years. She has built an impressive collection of quilts entirely of her own design, with […]
Dominique Rodrigues
From childhood, Dominique Rodrigues was introduced to art and handcrafts by her father and grandmother. She developed an early interest in painting and embroidery while later working as a hairdresser in the Paris region. At the age of forty, she moved to Morbihan in Brittany, where she discovered traditional patchwork. This relocation marked a turning […]
Elfriede Grooten
For Elfriede Grooten, nature has always been a profound source of inspiration. Witnessing the damage caused by human behavior to our planet deeply affects her and fuels her artistic commitment. This concern forms the core of her motivation. Working with self-dyed fabrics and a wide range of techniques, she creates emotionally charged textile art. Three-dimensional […]
Delphine Twitchett
Since early childhood, drawing has held a central place in Delphine Twitchett’s life. In 2003, she began transforming her sketches of imaginary characters into machine embroidery designs, creating a distinctive dialogue between illustration and textile art. Sewing naturally became part of her artistic path: she designed accessories embellished with her own embroidery, gradually shaping a […]
Clara Stoikow
German quilter Clara Stoikow worked as an architect in Berlin until 2015. When her husband’s career took the family abroad, she moved first to St. Petersburg, Russia, then in 2020 to New York, USA, before returning to Berlin in 2024. During these years abroad, quilting gradually became central to her life and practice. What began […]
Concours international Carrefour 2026
In September, visitors to the Carrefour will get an exclusive first look at the International Contest exhibition, showcasing 30 quilts selected from entries worldwide. The award ceremony, open to the public, will take place on Friday, September 18 at 2:30 PM at the Pavillon Osmont in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, honoring the most outstanding works. Each year, a […]