V & A Desk Diary

* Quilting is strong internationally - particularly in the USA and Japan but also in Australia, France, Germany and the Scandinavian countries. * USA: The quilting industry is now worth $3.3 billion (up on the $2.5 billion from the last survey in 2003) and total US quilters now exceed 27.7 million (30% increase from 2003). (Survey Professional Quilter online) * USA museums include International Quilt Study Center & Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA; Museum of American Quilter's Society, Paducah, Kentucky, USA; American Museum of Quilts & Textiles of San Jose, San Jose, California; Kalona Quilt & Textile Museum, Iowa; La Conner Quilt Museum, La Conner; Lancaster Quilt & Textile Museum, Lancaster, PA; New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA; The People's Place Quilt Museum, PA; The Quilters Hall of Fame, Marion, Indiana; Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, CO; Virginia Quilt Museum, Harrisonburg, VA; Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, WI; American Folk Art Museum, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; Colonial Williamsburg, VA; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NY; Daughters ofo the American Revolution (DAR) Museum, Washington D.C.; Deerfield Museum, MA; Handweaving Museum & Arts Center, Clayton NY; Lancaster Cultural History Museum, PA; Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Great Lakes Quilt Center, MI; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco; Museum of Our National Heritage; Lexington, MA; New England Quilt Museum; Newark Museum, NJ; Old Sturbridge Village, MA; Shelburne Museum, VT; Smithsonian, Washington D.C; Textile Museum, Washington D.C; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT; Winterthur Museum, DE.