Bedspread - Bedspreads and bed-blankets

Cover or piece of cloth that covers a bed. The butt is a wonderful bedspread. This term evokes a technique born in Marseille in the 17th century, following the English blockade preventing the importation of wonderful fabrics called Indian. The brightly coloured floral and Arabic motifs had seduced women. To replace these pieces of fabric, they began to quilt and hand-pick the patterns they had drawn with a large needle called butts.