One of the first and, by all accounts, most prolific importers of these quilts was a company called Arch.  But while Arch quilts seem to be ubiquitous, unearthing information about the company itself has been something of an exercise.  From New York corporate records and vendor recollections, Arch Associates, Inc. was founded by K.C. Foung in Elmsford, NY in 1987, and like American-Pacific (notorious for its Smithsonian quilt knockoffs of the early 1990s), imported mass-produced quilts from China which it wholesaled to large department stores and other major retailers.  Sometimes a tag ("Arch Quilts, Elmsford NY" or later "Arch Quilts, Hawthorne NY") was attached, but it is possible that some quilts may have been sold to retailers without these identifying labels.  In 1993 Arch Associates registered its "Arch Home Collection" bumblebee trademark; the last of its trademarks was cancelled in 2001.   Occasionally "Arch Home Collection" bedding (including sheets) can be found on ebay under the now-extinct Cannon Royal Family label.   An "Arch Associates, Inc." whose business is home furnishing textiles now operates out of  a residential address in Summit, NJ, so it appears the company is still in business in one form or another.   (If you have any information on Arch, I'd appreciate it if you'd contact me here.)  

Arch's quilt designs are carefully aligned with home-decor trends, so dating their quilts is reasonably easy.  Earlier examples tend to be in simple designs and in pastel combinations of dusty pink and gray-blue; later quilts are more complex, in "Ralph Lauren" jeweltones of hunter, navy, and burgundy or "Laura Ashley" sherbet colors which often included yellow, an uncommon color in earlier pastel quilts.  As a general rule, the more richly-colored, densely quilted, and complex an Arch quilt is, the more recently it was made.   By far the most common Arch quilts on ebay are Dresden Plates, although those with alternating Lemoyne Star and Railroad Crossing blocks run a close second.  (One ebay seller seems to have an endless supply of these quilts.) More than once, the Baltimore Album and New York Beauty quilts have been advertised as antique originals. 

The following images are of quilts from ebay and elsewhere whose Arch label was either pictured or which had been positively identified by their sellers as Arch quilts from the label.  Click to see closeups; please email me for more.  (If you have an quilt you'd like to add to the collection, please do send photos!)