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Quilting Time

Digital backing / companion to the printed book

QUILTING TIME explores quilting as a practice of care, memory and community. Inspired by my aunt's handmade quilts, the project brings together photography, interviews, archival material and editorial design to reveal quilting as a living cultural practice – one that connects generations and offers a slower, more mindful way of making in today's digital world.

The printed book holds the deep research. This website carries the project further through movement, interaction and access.

A tall stack of folded quilts topped with a handmade teddy bear and angel, surrounded by rag dolls, cloth cats and a woven bag, on a light blue backdrop.

Stitch by stitch,

preserving time

Kim Minseon's Quilt Archive

Cut-out quilts as a textile trace running through the page. The works appear large, open and without a gallery frame: one quilt after another, as you scroll.

Practice Quilt, a blue sampler quilt of geometric blocks, photographed flat with its backing corner folded open.
Practice Quilt – 180 × 215 cm
Colors, a multicolor diamond-repeat quilt photographed flat with a pale blue backing corner folded open.
Colors – 200 × 240 cm
Sun Bonnet, a quilt with twelve seasonal Sunbonnet-figure appliqué scenes, photographed with the backing corner folded open.
Sun Bonnet – 175 × 215 cm
Zigzag Triangle, a quilt of colorful chevron rows in scrap fabric, with a floral backing corner folded open.
Zigzag Triangle – 200 × 240 cm
The Goodboy Quilt, a large quilt with a floral vine border, hidden animals and a central checkerboard.
The Goodboy Quilt – 230 × 230 cm
Scandinavian Rose, a quilt with embroidered LOVE and FRIENDSHIP text panels.
Scandinavian Rose – 127 × 127 cm
Patchwork Pantry, a quilt of small framed appliqué motifs: flowers, birds, fruit and teacups.
Patchwork Pantry – 115 × 132 cm
Foxley Village, a colorful house and village quilt with the name appliquéd onto the surface.
Foxley Village – 215 × 180 cm
Country Bears, a quilt with kitchen-themed embroidered blocks on a blue gingham border, backing corner folded open to reveal a light blue floral print.
Country Bears – 110 × 152 cm
Baby Blanket, a quilt with an appliquéd star patchwork center framed by a red border and floral fabric, backing corner folded open to reveal a nautical teddy-bear print.
Baby Blanket – 100 × 105 cm

Project Philosophy

The website is the digital backing of Quilting Time.

Like the backing of a quilt, it supports and connects the different layers of the project – editorial, exhibition, interviews and workshop documentation – within one accessible space.

Rather than replacing the physical experience of textiles, the website extends it beyond the exhibition. It offers a curated selection of research, moving images and stories that preserve the project's process while inviting new audiences to engage with quilting as a practice of memory, care and community.

Just as a quilt is built from individual pieces, this digital archive brings together fragments of making, conversation and collaboration, allowing the project to continue beyond a specific place and moment.

Quilt sandwich logic

Three layers, one digital companion.

A quilt is built from a visible top, a hidden batting and a backing that touches the body. The site uses the same structure, but stays lighter than the book: a map, a movement, an entry point.

Quilt Top

The top is the visible layer of a quilt: the surface where fabric, color and pattern come together. It introduces quilting through what can be seen and explores quilts as visual compositions that carry traces of history, memory and culture.

Quilt Batting

The batting is the hidden middle layer that gives a quilt warmth and volume. In this editorial, it represents the emotional dimension of quilting: repetition, care, memory and the quiet knowledge that develops through making.

Quilt Backing

The backing is the layer that touches the body, the side no one sees but everyone feels. Here it stands for the participatory layer of the project: the point where the research opens outward into access, exchange and shared making.

Isometric illustration of a quilt sandwich showing the top, batting and backing layers stacked together.
Quilting Through Time Quilting In Time Quilting Beyond Time
A person kneeling beside a large quilt, arranging the quilt by hand in a clean studio space.

Where to start

Three layers,read one at a time.

This page is only an overview. The project itself unfolds page by page across three layers – top, batting, backing – each one its own reading. Start with the top layer, where pattern turns into a graphic system.

Enter the top layer

Acquisition & Contact

Interested in a quilt?

Some of the quilts presented in this exhibition are available for purchase. If you are interested in acquiring a quilt or would like further information, please get in touch.

Contact

Soo Ah Youn

Quilting Time · 2026