Julia McLeod

Julia McLeod is a quilt maker living and working in Northern California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She specializes in making quilts from rescued textiles, particularly silks: Neckties, saris, kimonos and furnishing fabrics all find their way into her quilts. Born and raised in England, Julia worked as a textile designer in the woolen- and worsted mills of Yorkshire and Scotland, and later for a company on Savile Row, in the heart of London’s bespoke tailoring industry. Julia enjoys lecturing and teaching on the subject of quilting-making with unusual and reclaimed textiles.