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Quilting fabric guides
Clear, practical answers for identifying fabric and understanding the records behind a quilt cotton collection. Each guide connects directly to the QuiltBase catalogue.
How to Identify an Unknown Quilting Fabric
A practical identification workflow using the selvedge, SKU, manufacturer, collection clues, colourway, motifs and reliable catalogue records.
Read guide →Do Quilt Fabric SKUs Contain the Release Year?
Learn why most quilting fabric SKUs do not contain the release year and how Moda, Tilda, Riley Blake, Robert Kaufman and other manufacturer codes are published.
Read guide →Tilda Fabric Collections in Chronological Order
A year-by-year guide to Tilda fabric collections, with release notes and direct links to QuiltBase fabric and SKU records.
Read guide →Moda Fabric Collections by Year
Browse Moda fabric collections by release year, with direct links to collection records, fabric swatches and SKU references.
Read guide →Built around catalogue evidence
QuiltBase guides use manufacturer references and live catalogue records. Collection indexes update as the archive grows; explanatory guidance is written and reviewed as reference material, not generated as disposable search content.