The oldest surviving specimens of patch products, carried out using applications from gazelle skin pieces, are stored as an exhibit in the museum   “Bulag” in Cairo and dated the year 980 BC. This is the patchwork “ancestor” (from the English word “Patch” - a patch or a piece of tissue, the flap). As for quilting, the earliest extant specimens are stored in the Tokyo Museum (there is exhibited quilted clothing of 1569-1867 period, decorated with various fabric pieces). Japanese women sewed layered clothing, using a special stitches technique - Sachiko, and did so qualitatively, thus often saving their soldiers’ bodies from the arrows defeat.
In IV - IX centuries AD pilgrims who made the ascent to the Temple (Thousand Buddha Caves, was on the ancient Silk Road), left there pieces of their garments. Of these multiple pieces left off the temple servants made carpet, resembling the pilgrimage of many people. This carpet was discovered only in 1920 by archaeologist Sir Arthur Stein.

From the East patchwork came to the Europe, probably after the Crusades, when knights brought from Palestine captured flags, banners, rugs, made in this technique and extraordinarily beautiful.

In Germany, Saint Elizabeth monastic dress, stitched together in the 13-th century and stored for centuries in the closed trunk of the monastery town of Trier, is considered the first quilted product. A patchwork craft, as an independent type of decorative - applied art, is thought to have originated in England in the late XVII - early XVIII centuries and is associated with a weaving industry development progress. 

England specialized in sheep farming, which naturally gave raw material for woolen fabrics production. To improve finished products marketing, the government banned cotton fabrics imported from former colonies sale.

Indian chintz got to be contraband, which of course led to high prices and shortages. Not every family could take a liberty of clothes from such bright, with exquisite oriental patterns, fabrics, but this led to the fact that remnants of cutting tissue carefully kept and used as decorative elements on cheaper British manufactures products.
Later, when in the house a fair amount of patches was gathered, they were joined into a single fabric.

An interesting fact is that in Russia, unlike Britain, Patchwork arose from poverty. Fabrics were made by hand on a small machine, which was practically in every home. This process is so labor -intensive and protracted, that even in affluent homes it was carefully treating to wear and other household cloth items.
Clothing was sewed for growth and since it was wearing for a long time, it had to be patched, and even altering the junior members of the family.
Each piece, suitable even for something that was utilized

In America the quilt became the subject of national pride, that’s why probably she is considered the true quilt birthplace. Originally this word meant a blanket, made of patches, quilted, with heated liner.
 Then the word "quilt" became all the products’ made in this technique name.

This type of needlework came to America with settlers. In a country which has absorbed the traditions and culture of different peoples, quilt became a national art form, for two hundred years there have been developed and became traditional many of the patchworks designs and manufacturing technologies. . At London blankets Museum there are kept excellent products, made by first American settlers’ wives.

From a utilitarian craft born of necessity, Quilting has become a kind of high decorative arts, became one of its most striking and multifarious kinds. Bed covers and panels made in the technique of quilting are museums, galleries and collectors collecting subject. Quilts collections adorn the exhibitions of most prestigious museums in the United States, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and many other countries.