textile history A FAMILY AFFAIR
Many readers will be familiar with Jen Jones, an international authority on the traditions of Welsh quilt-making and founder of the Welsh Quilt Centre in Lampeter, south-west Wales. Since the 1970s, Jen has been amassing a world-class collection of over 400 Welsh quilts that cover the full spectrum of the country’s diverse quilt-making heritage. Jen also sells historic Welsh quilts and blankets through her Cottage Shop in Llanybydder, near Lampeter. Growing up with Jen’s mission to save and preserve these irreplaceable artefacts, perhaps it’s not surprising that her daughter Kate shares her mother’s love of antique textiles. Read on to find out more about Jen’s and Kate’s shared passion…
JEN I arrived in Wales in 1971 and promptly realised that, by and large, quilts
