Quilting Fabrics

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Overview

Quilting fabric is the first deep-dive in the Textiles research area: plain-weave 100% cotton cloth sold in solids and prints to roughly 9–11 million U.S. quilters. It is a useful test case for reindustrialization because it combines commodity inputs (cotton, dyes), mature machinery, and a consumer market that is large, loyal, and almost entirely supplied from Asia.

Key Themes

  • Quality is multi-factor and mostly unmeasured publicly. Thread count, weight consistency, finishing, dye fastness, and print registration all matter; none is published consistently.
  • Brands do not name mills. The only origin survey found is from 2017 and points to Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, and India, with one U.S. line.
  • The U.S. grows the cotton but ships it away. About 90% of projected 2026/27 U.S. production is exported raw.
  • A domestic chain is forming outside quilting. Weaving, digital printing, finishing, and sewing partners in the Carolinas could in principle serve quilting cloth.

Entries

Entries

  • Cotton Supply and Fabric Buyers — Where cotton for woven fabric is grown, which countries mill and import it, where U.S. raw cotton goes, and who buys quilting fabric — with USDA 2026/27 projections.
  • Quilting Fabric Brands and Disclosed Origins — Which quilting-fabric brands have disclosed where their fabric is woven, dyed, and printed, what is claimed, and how weak the public evidence is — with U.S.-made lines flagged.
  • What Makes High-Quality Quilting Fabric — Construction, fiber, finishing, dye chemistry, printing, tiers, pricing, and supply-chain opacity in quilting cotton — and how much of it can actually be verified from public sources.