Text Prints and Low Volume Fabrics

 Have you noticed from time to time

even though you might be a seasoned quilter

 there is new

Quilt Slang

being spoken?

I belong to the Phoenix Modern Quilt Guild

and our board asked if we would like to

participating in either a

 Text Print

or 

Low Volume

 Fabric Swap

Half the room went

"HUH?"

Because our guild is probably the norm

I thought it might be nice to clarify

some of the latest

Modern quilt jargon.

Text Prints 

have greatly increased in popularity

especially in the Modern Quilt movement

and

usually contain 

words

symbols

 or phrases

**

Low Volume 

seems to be a new word for an old term.

We used to call them 

Neutrals

or Lights

Our grandmother's called the same look

Shirting's

 *Sun Print collection by Alison Glass for Andover Fabrics

 The fabric is often used

as a back ground 

in place of a solid.

We normally think of Modern Quilts

as bright geometric shapes 

mixed with

 large open spaces of 

solid color.

The trend now seems to be leaning 

towards a more scrappy background mix 

often in black and whites

to provide a 

softer

calming

effect next to those brights.

 If you have more questions

my friend Sherri McConnell

has written an excellent article on 

Text Prints and Low Volume

for Moda Cutting Table

HERE

that explains these 

latest

newfangled

terms in even further detail.