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Quilt Artistry: Inspired Designs from the East Paperback – April 1, 2009

by Yoshiko Jinzenji (Author)

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Yoshiko Jinzenji began quilting after she came upon quilts made by Canadian Mennonites and was deeply moved by their resonant, sacred quality. The richly minimalist quilts she makes today are as powerful as those that originally inspired her. Quilt Artistry, available now in a paperback edition, presents Jinzenji's unforgettable quilt creations in 100 color photos, and 300 black-and-white photos and diagrams. There are also a total of 90 projects for everyone from beginners to the most advanced quilters.

Jinzenji is a superb dyer and often makes quilts from fabric or fiber she colors with natural dyes, including very subtle and rich bamboo-dyed white silk. In other quilts she uses antique fabric collected from around the world, and in still others utilizes innovative synthetics such as black metallic cloth created by well-known textile designer Junichi Arai. No matter what the material, her quilts all have a remarkable, quiet power. Like classic North American quilts, Jinzenji's work resonates with a spiritual quality, but one that is rooted in an Asian, even Buddhist, sensibility.

Jinzenji has always wanted to give something back to the Western quilting tradition that first inspired her, and with this book, she is wonderfully successful. In addition to full-size quilts, Jinzenji demonstrates how to make quilted pillows, clutch purses, necklaces, decorative objects, table mats, tiny miniature quilt mandalas, and even a hammock. Detailed patterns and instructions are included for all projects shown.

Quilt makers, as well as anyone with an interest in textiles or design, will find Quilt Artistry as inspirational as it is practical.

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Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Kodansha USA; 1 edition (April 1, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 4770030991
ISBN-13: 978-4770030993
Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 0.6 x 8.9 inches
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Beautiful.

By Britt Arnhild Lindland on April 29, 2003

Format: Hardcover

Yoshiko Jinzenji has made a beautiful book showing her magnificient quilts and pieces of fabric arts.

The book itself, photos, paper, printing, writing, style, is a piece of art. A book you will be happy to own, no matter if you are a quilter or just a book lover. A perfect coffee table book for any home, though this one is so much more than a coffee table book. This book deserves to be read and be looked through again and again.
Yoshiko Jinzenji has been a quilter for a lifetime, and during these years she has developed her own unique and perfect style. We get to know Jinzenji through the pages of the book, both through words and through pictures. We meet her and her quilts in Kyoto, and we meet her in her studio in Bali. The book also have a section on how to make quilts, easy to read, easy to follow the step by step instructions. Jinzenji makes her quilts from ancient fabric collected from around the world, and she makes her quilts from natural dyes in light, clean colors. But no matter what the fabric is, her vibrant quilts all stand out and have all their own story to tell
The highlights in the book though are the pictures. The somewhat clean and stylish picture of a Small Modern Amish quilt displayed on the wall in her Kyoto home, the fantastic puzzle of an uncountable number of small Mandala quilts put together to form a universe in colors, cloths and patterns, the collague of many pictures from scenes around her studio in Bali as inspirations for future quilts.
The way the writing and photos in the book are put together shows the reader a new way to look at the surroundings, and through that a new way to look at life. Or to say it with the words from the foreword of the book, written by textile designer Jun'ichi Arai; I am convinced that Yoshiko Jinzenji's achievements in establishing a new genre in quilting will never be forgotten.

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Beautiful!

By K. M. Biagioli on February 9, 2003

Format: Hardcover

This book is beautifully written and designed. The cover and paper used are artful. Yoshiko Jenzenji shares her passion for quilting in a way that weaves a common thread through cultures, locales, nature, and spirituality. I could feel my heart swell as I read through this book and as I looked at and studied the photographs. This is a book about her quilts and about quilting--but the photography and artistry of its cover and between its covers makes it a special treasure. I am excited to own this book and will be proud to display it. I am so inspired by Yoshiko Jenzenji's quilt work and passion for quilting. I became dizzy with inspiration! I will recommend it to every friend I have--and not all of them are quilters! I would think they would all want to BECOME quilters after experiencing this book. Yoshiko Jenzenji seemed to open her heart and her home with this book. I am thankful to her for sharing her passion and talent with the world!

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An exquisite portrait of an exquisite mind

By Douglas BULLIS on April 16, 2003

Format: Hardcover

A piece of fabric is the pulse of life is written across our eyes by drape, shape, texture, and hue. Art forms, and perhaps art itself, have their own genetic codes-forms of doubling and redoubling that, as DNA does with the cell, determine a look, a feel, a character, an emotion. Lucky, then, are the pieces of fabric doubled and redoubled by the eyes and hands of Yoshiko Jinzenji. A few snips of color and weave become a mix of art and the irrepressible urge to adorn that make you want to dive off this world and into what you see.
She best articulates the origins of all this in her book's Introduction:
"I have a very clear memory of my first encounter with quilts. It was in Toronto in the winter of 1970, in the furniture section of Eaton's department store downtown. There, surrounded by standardized fluffy bedspreads, were two handmade quilts draped over wooden racks. I went over to them as if drawn by a magnet and took them in my hand, wondering what on earth these handmade quilts were doing in the middle of a display of manufactured goods. The oddity of the combination was stunning. The quilts were made by joining together many small pieces of cloth and then covering the whole with fine hand stitching. Each had a price tag, and I was stunned again to see that they were not much more expensive than the manufactured spreads. Who could have made these, I asked myself, and what had inspired their beautiful handwork
Yoshiko's work is a textile manifestation of the preoccupation with apres-antique and avant-garde that characterizes so much of Japanese culture today. On page 40 she recounts the symbiosis of ancient textiles in the tea ceremony; a scant 7 pages further on were are suddenly confronted with a work made of some of the most interesting cloth ideations of Jun'ichi Arai.Read more ›

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Not What I Expected

By LuvKimono on September 13, 2009

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What I had hoped for was a book that showcased the use of traditional fabrics from Japan. And while there are some "mandala" quilt blocks (5 7/8 inch each) that are made from antique Japanese, Phillipino, Indian and Indonesian fabrics along with some instructions on how to piece a kimono into a small quilt without wasting any of the fabric, the vast majority of the book showcases work done with either vanguard textiles by Junichi Arai or silk fabric handwoven and dyed with natural dyes found in Indonesia. Some of the works are extraordinary; some are quite mediocre.

Jinzenji's best works are full size quilts in white or pale colors with little or no patchwork piecing that are so densely quilted it is the sewn surface's shape and lines that that attract and hold the eye. Other works, with names like "Sound" and "Dew," and "Color" borrow from the American Amish and prairie quilting traditions in their use of grid layouts and techniques like log cabin and seminole piecing. Jinzenji calls some of her works "engineered," and indeed, they are quite "technical" in appearance and in the quality of the workmanship. These are very beautiful quilts, and the drawings presented with some of them should make it possible for an intermediate quilter to produce similar works. How she pieced the mandala blocks with the vintage textiles into tiny 5 7/8 inch blocks remains a mystery to me even after reading through the book. All of the blocks were complex patterns with many pieces--one of them had 81 pieces. Making a block that is less than 6 inches on each side with that many pieces would be just about impossible even if one sews them by hand, as Jinzenji recommends.

I was not inspired by her attempts at braiding or quilting objects like hammocks, pillows or placemats. I thought these looked amateurish and unfinished. Nevertheless, this is a very beautiful book that does have a place in quilter's library as inspiration for certain kinds of techniques.

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All Yoshiko's work is so stunningly beautiful I'm left feeling rather...

Gorgeous book, wish there was more of it. All Yoshiko's work is so stunningly beautiful I'm left feeling rather down about my own efforts. Read more

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Beautiful photos

Very inspiring quilting. Great reference book

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met the lady, now I have the book -- it is as lovely as her quilts

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I love the simplicity of Yoshiko's quilt designs. With the equipment I have now I could do some of the smaller pieces. Read more

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Awesome Lady, wonderful book !!!!

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