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Quilted Maple lumber grows in the Pacific Northwest of North America. Specifically, areas as far south as the West Coast of California to as far north as British Columbia.

Quilt figure appears in Big Leaf Maple (acer macrophyllum). It is not commonly found in Hard Maple, Red Leaf or Silver Leaf Maple. 

Highly figured quilted maple is rare. Additionally, it is one of the most expensive varieties of maple figure. It is less common than curly or flame figure. In fact, only 1 out of 100 big leaf maple trees exhibits quilt figure.

When sawn into book matched flitches, electric guitar builders use quilt figure for two piece book-matched guitar tops. 

"Bigleaf maple grows in mountainous regions. It is widespread in the Coast Ranges, the Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains, and the foothills of the Cascade Range and the northern Sierra Nevada obtaining best development in southern Oregon. Some authors place bigleaf maple's distribution as far north as the Alaska panhandle Isolated bigleaf maple populations may occur in Idaho.

States and provinces (as of 2011 ):
United States: CA, OR, WA
Canada: BC

SITE CHARACTERISTICS AND PLANT COMMUNITIES:
Site characteristics: Moist woods, forests, and canyons are bigleaf maple's most common habitats throughout much of its distribution . Bigleaf maple is apparently limited by cold climate to the north of its distribution and by drought to the south . Its frost tolerance is low, and it does not grow where deep soil freezes occur before snowfall "

source: US Forest Service