Quilts from Japan
It is our great pleasure to display our seventh quilt show at the La Conner Quilt & Textile Museum. We have chosen the theme of “blooming” for this show. How much have we been impressed and moved by the beat and breath of nature! How many times have artists, craftsmen, and designers picked blossoms, flowers, plants and other nature for their motifs and created their art work! We quilt makers have been, and continue to be, fond of adopting them as the motifs for our quilt works as well.
About four decades ago, we, in Japan, discovered the amazing and heart-warming American quilt world. We were deeply impressed and inspired, and began to make our own. It is the similar sensation we experience as we look at all the nature around us, including human beings, “springing up.”
Now, it is our wish to show you our expression of “blooming” on our quilts with images of plants and flowers as well as abstract forms and colors. I hope you will enjoy all the quilts we have brought, including the variety of fabrics used to create them.
Miwako Kimura, Curator
Quilt:Â “Flowers Playing Cards” by Masako Masuda.
