Welcome to Math Quilts!

Day and Month

Math Quilt Gallery

topology | pi | color
geometry | perspective
Pythagorean Theorem | Right Triangle abc
feathered star | mariner's compass | symmetry
fractals | tessellations and tiling including Escher

Reference Department

Quilters' (Math) Rules of Thumb | What is a Math Quilt? | Call for Math Quilts

Related Links

• American Quilt Study Group welcomes all persons interested in the history of quiltmaking
  
• American Quilters Society
  
• Anabeth's Quilts has a link to her Mathematics Quilt and some rhombic hexecontahedrons
  
• C&T Publishing
  
• Dr. Math is at Drexel University
  
• Escher
• Jinny Beyer
  
• Karen Combs makes optical illusion quilts
  
• Kaye Wood's Quilting
  
• Lost Quilt Come Home is a not-for-profit webpage that displays lost or stolen quilts, and has information on how to protect our quilts
  
• Mathematical Imagery
  
• Elaine Krajenke Ellison has some outstanding Mathematical Quilts
  
• Martha Pullen publishes the magazine Sew Beautiful, featuring gorgeous heirloom sewing projects and techniques
  
• Nottingham University's About Today's Date was the inspiration for Quilts Every Day (QED). Unfortunately, About Today's Date is no more.
  
• On-line Geometry from the University of Minnesota
  
• Penrose Quilt in Canada
  
• Penrose Quilt in Vermont
  
• QuiltChat has an online quilt guild
  
• Ravelry is the online knit and crochet community with over 350,000 registered users
  
• Sewing Connection with Shirley Adams
  
• Southern Polytechnic State University identifies the 17 Plane Symmetry Groups
  
• TAP: The Ada Project
  
• Totally Tessellated has a historical image gallery of tessellations

Awards

	In 1997 this page was the Page of the Week for Knot a Braid of Links, sponsored by the the Canadian Mathematical Society (CAMEL).
	In July 1998 the Great Places Award was given by the National Online Quilters.
	The Encyclopedia Britannica selected this page for its Internet Guide Award in February 2000.

Thank you to those of you who have nominated this page for awards!

Math Quilts Online Bookstore

Note: Currently under construction with much-needed updates.

Math Quilts Online Bookstore, in association with Amazon.com, provides book reviews and purchase of books on quilts and mathematics. Current topics include basic quiltmaking, polygons, quilt pattern design, feathered stars, tessellations and tiling, Escher, geometry, optical illusions, mariner's compass, perspective, fractals and color.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to The Wayback Machine, which archived my website on 22 January 2007.

Mathquilt QED and Quote pages use the simple hit counter from Tutorial Monkey
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From 4/27/96 to 10/31/2008, the Math Quilt web site was hosted at http://members.aol.com/mathquilt.

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Atchison KS