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- Title
The Collaborative Relationship between Professional Machine Quilters and Their Customers in the Contemporary Quilt Movement.
- Authors
Bingham, Margaret M.
- Abstract
Highly specialized machine-quilting technology has evolved from its introduction in the early 1980s into a major influence on the contemporary quilting movement. Using the sophisticated quilting machines, entrepreneurial quilters have reintroduced professional quilting services. This paper presents results of research investigating professional machine quilters and their collaborative relationships with their customers. This pioneering study of the participants in this transformative movement examines the motives behind the quilters' decisions to establish quilting services businesses and the motives of the customers for utilizing these services. The convergence of these two groups can provide opportunities for synergistic partnership or, in some cases, miscommunication and disappointment. This study examines some of the factors that support successful artistic collaboration between professional machine quilter and their customers and sheds light on a new and vital aspect of the contemporary quilt movement. Within the context of contemporary quiltmaking, the phenomenon of machine quilting exemplifies significant changes in the motivations, practices, and attitudes of contemporary quiltmakers, raising questions about future directions and suggesting the need for additional research on contemporary quilt culture.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MACHINE quilting; MACHINE sewing; QUILTING; QUILTS; SPECIALISTS; QUILTMAKERS; COTTAGE industries; CONSUMER preferences; CUSTOMER satisfaction; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Uncoverings, 2011, Vol 32, p79
- ISSN
0277-0628
- Publication type
Article