Quilt Trading Cards

The Quilt Trading Cards are a small pattern quilt fashioned with various materials. Like the Artist Trading Cards, Quilt Trading Cards are fashioned similarly on a 2.5 by 3.5 inch card. This may also be known as fiber art or fabric art.

The newest form of ACEO's called the Quilt Trading Cards that are fabric based. Many people like the quilting effect on artwork so making an ACEO with that effect is the popular thing to do. Making your own, ACEO's happens to be an international hobby that has been in existence for a very long time. In the Victorian era, many merchants and professionals made their own trading cards to advertise their business or product.

The artistic work a collectors item now has a very large value depending on who the artist maybe or the subject. The product cards are very famous and worth a lot too. Many unknown artist like to make an ACEO by copying the artwork of other famous artists. These replicas still have their value in the trading card world today. The onset of Litho making trading cards in color added to the power of making even more trading cards. The ACEO's are still the most famous form of making a trading card.

The materials used to make Quilt Trading Cards is limited only by the imagination, as long as it is fabric based. That isn't to say that you cannot use other items on them, you can, only you paint the fabric, glue your items to the fabric. Sew the stitching and glue a binding to the quilt trading cards edge. Lastly, attach the fabric to the blank trading cards then sign and date the backside of your miniature work of art.

With quilt cards it doesn't have to be an original design, creating replica's of traditional quilt patterns will keep one busy for a long time. Free Quilt patterns are readily available by a simple search.