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A visit to Antique Textiles Company on Abbey Road feels like stepping inside a storybook. More than 1,200 quilts hang from the walls, or sit piled on tables, stacked in colour-coordinated towers. Each carries its own stitched history. Greeting you, for example, is a pair of early-19th-century Georgian chintz medallion patchworks in extraordinary greens and browns,…