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Best places to explore the fiber arts
April 11, 2014Updated April 14, 2014, 2:09 p.m. ET

The famed African-American quilting community of tiny Gees Bend, Ala., has been featured on U.S. postage stamps and in international museum exhibits.
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The Texas Quilt Museum in La Grange grew out of Houston's mammoth International Quilt Festival, which started in 1974, and now attracts more than 60,000 visitors every year.
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Nearly 40,000 visitors a year come to The National Quilt Museum in Paducah, Ky. The city has been named a UNESCO creative city.
Paducah.TravelManhattan has a vibrant quilting community, much of it centered on City Quilter, which not only stocks more than 4,000 fabrics, but also holds classes and runs an art quilt gallery.
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The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles in California shows that the region's innovators don't just work with motherboards and web startups.
SJquiltmuseum.orgThe La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum occupies the recently refurbished historic Carches mansion about an hour north of Seattle.
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San Diego's Visions Art Museum had its genesis in a national juried exhibition. It opened as a museum in 2010, and showcases the latest in contemporary fiber art.
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The International Quilt Study Center and Museum in Lincoln, Neb., holds what is considered the world's largest quilt collection.
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