The above image shows a close-up of the planning that goes into a City Map Quilt. “City Quilts are a sort of bridge between my architectural education and the craft skills I learned growing up in rural Wisconsin," Fischer says. "I use GIS data, satellite imagery, and USGS and NOAA charts to design each quilt pattern. But the quilts aren't just translations of maps—I'm not a big fan of the ‘maps on stuff’ design trend—because they are hand-quilted and subject to idiosyncrasies scaled to the human hand.”

Haptic Lab also designed and created the Constellation Quilt, which features the night’s sky. Photo 3 of 5 in Amazing Textiles Explore the Sense of Touch by Marianne Colahan

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The above image shows a close-up of the planning that goes into a City Map Quilt. “City Quilts are a sort of bridge between my architectural education and the craft skills I learned growing up in rural Wisconsin," Fischer says. "I use GIS data, satellite imagery, and USGS and NOAA charts to design each quilt pattern. But the quilts aren't just translations of maps—I'm not a big fan of the ‘maps on stuff’ design trend—because they are hand-quilted and subject to idiosyncrasies scaled to the human hand.”

Haptic Lab also designed and created the Constellation Quilt, which features the night’s sky.