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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface: Chasing Quilts in Japan
  • CHAPTER 1. JAPAN'S QUILTING HISTORY: A Heavy Dose of American Influence
    • Hundreds of Years of Creative Expression
    • Re-emergence of the Japanese Arts and Crafts Movement: Building a Land of Culture
    • Needle and Thread Revival
    • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Quilts Debut at New York's Whitney Museum
    • American Antique Quilts on View in Japan: From the Halls of New York to a Gallery in Tokyo
    • Inspiration from Vintage African-American Quilts
    • Chronology of American Influence on Japan's Quilting History: 1950s-2000s
  • CHAPTER 2. LEARNING TO QUILT IN JAPAN: Two Schools of Thought
    • Learning inside the iemoto System
    • Government-Sanctioned Quilt Instruction
    • The iemoto Classroom
    • Hearts & Hands Patchwork Quilt School: Japan's First Quilt Instruction
    • Japan's First Retail Quilt Store
    • Mother's Dreams: An Example of a Modern iemoto School
    • The Modern Machine versus Time-Honored Handwork
    • Japan's First Sewing Machines
    • Life Far Outside the iemoto System: Noriko Endo and Keiko Goke
    • Miki Murakami: From Keiko Goke Student to Master Quilter
    • Makiko Aoki: A Quilt Lesson that Changed Her Art
    • Artists Supporting Artists: Jim Hay and Mikiko Takase
  • CHAPTER 3. 1990: The Year of the Quilt
    • Publishing for an International Audience
    • Quilt Nihon is Born
    • An American Museum Hosts the First All-Japanese Quilt Show
    • Houston's Sixteenth Annual International Quilt Destival Showcaes Japan
    • Shoko Hatano and Yoshiko Jinzenji
  • CHAPTER 4. JAPAN'S GROSS NATIONAL COOL AND THE J-QUILT
    • "Wa" Quilts, Recognized for Their "Japaneseness"
    • Wa in One Hundred Quilts
    • Cutting Up Vintage Kimonos for Quilts
  • CHAPTER 5. YOKO SAITO: Quilter and Artist First, Entrepreneur and Executive Second
    • Leading an Entirely New Movement Called Taupe-ism
  • CHAPTER 6. YOSHIKO KATAGIRI: Meet the Master of Exquisite Applique
    • Quilted Layers of Fine Art Mixed with Vintage Fabric and Traditional Themes
  • CHAPTER 7. NORIKO ENDO: Paying Homage to Nature with Fiber
    • Re-inventing the Japanese Landscape
  • CHAPTER 8. CHIAKI DOSHO: The Über Modern Artist, Quiet and Powerful
    • The Ethereal Quilter
  • CHAPTER 9. YOKO SEKITA: Telling Stories through Textiles
    • From Manga Artist to Quilter
  • CHAPTER 10. YASUKO SAITO: Innovation and Movement through Quilting
    • Manipulating Mixed Media into Quilts
  • CHAPTER 11. YOSHIKO KURIHARA: Figurative Fine Art
    • From Painting to Patchwork
  • CHAPTER 12. KEIKO GOKE: Color Galore and a Fresh Point of View
    • Appreciating the Unconventional
  • Bibliography

Title: Japanese Contemporary Quilts and Quilters: The Story of an American Import
Author/Designer: Teresa Duryea Wong
Format/Publication Date: HC:2015
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, PA
Language: English
Page Count: 144
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 9780764348747

SUMMARY- I bought this on the strength of Sandra Siders' "Art Quilts Unfolding" - which blew my mind. This book did too, which means I'm going to have to go and find the other quilting books that Schiffer has published. I want to be Noriko Endo if I grow up - her landscape quilts are exquisite. And if I can't be Noriko Endo, then being Yoko Sekita would be awesome. This is not a pattern book, but a survey of Japanese quilters and the history of this craft/art in Japan. It is a very entertaining read with tons of eye candy.

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