quilting vs cloth

quilting and cloth both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
quilting	Yes	No	No	No
cloth	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cloth is a hypernym of quilting; that is, cloth is a word with a broader meaning than quilting:

quilting: a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric
cloth: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

Other hypernyms of quilting include fabric, material, textile.

quilting (noun)	cloth (noun)
a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric	artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design