Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day
Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day is held on January 25. This event in the third decade of the month January is annual. 
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Quilts are an important piece of our heritage. They offer insight into the social, cultural, and economic history of an area. A quilt is defined as two layers of fabric, frequently with some form of batting or stuffing sandwiched between them, held together by ties or stitched designs.
The oldest surviving example of a quilted piece is a linen carpet found in a Mongolian cave, dated to between 100 BCE and 200 CE. It is now kept at the Saint Petersburg department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Archaeology Section.
No one is exactly sure when quilting began, but from evidence found in the Temple of Osiris at Abydos, Egypt. It seems that people wore quilted clothing as many as 5000 years ago.
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Compliment Day on January 24
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A Room Of One's Own Day on January 25
Burns Night on January 25 (Scotland and Scottish community);
Opposite Day on January 25 (is particularly popular among children, who enjoy the kind of absurdity that can happen when everything you say is backwards);
Seed Swap Day in USA on January 25 (The first official celebration was held on January 26, 2006, in Washington, D.C.);
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