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When was the quilting frame first used?

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Quilting itself is old and practiced across many cultures with no single point of origin, and the frame or hoop that supports it is correspondingly undocumented. General sources on quilting describe the frame's function without ever fixing a date or place for when the tool first came into use. 1
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A textile historian tracing quilting frames specifically, rather than quilting generally, through surviving frames, guild records or depictions, could establish an earliest attested example the way the loom and the spinning wheel already have one. 1
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Quilting itself is old and practiced across many cultures with no single point of origin, and the frame or hoop that supports it is correspondingly undocumented. General sources on quilting describe the frame's function without ever fixing a date or place for when the tool first came into use.

What would resolve this A textile historian tracing quilting frames specifically, rather than quilting generally, through surviving frames, guild records or depictions, could establish an earliest attested example the way the loom and the spinning wheel already have one.
OpenTextile historyQuilting (Wikipedia)
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