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Check out Episode 3103 of The Quilt Show with Ricky Tims & Alex Anderson. I was interviewed about my books, research, Japan travels, and more. It was such an honor to be a guest on this bit-time quilt industry television show! I did a show and tell with Alex explaining Japanese antique cotton folk textiles, and I demo’d a string piecing technique with Ricky. Check it out. You can subscribe or sign up for a free trial!
Ricky Tims – with The Quilt Show – interviews Teresa. Posted on The Quilt Show, Dec. 11, 2017.
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Pat Sloan interviewed me for her podcast ‘American Patchwork & Quilting’. Listen in as she asks me about my new book “American Cotton: Farm to Quilt.” My interview was in May of 2019. Pat ended her long-running (and very popular) podcast in June, but episodes are still available. Episode 421.
Listen to my full length interview with Abby Glassenberg on the Craft Industry Alliance Podcast (formerly hosted on ‘While She Naps’). Abby is the ‘Terry Gross’ of the craft and quilting world and her interviews are insightful and fun to listen to. Episode 154.
The three-layered quilt was imported from America to Japan. It was quickly adopted and adapted to become a favorite pastime for an estimated three million quilters in Japan today. Once adopted, Japan took this pastime seriously and systems were quickly built to teach adept and eager sewists how to make masterpieces. By the 1990s, Japanese quilt makers were world renowned for their traditional hand-pieced and hand-quilted quilts. Go inside the Tokyo International Great Quilt Festival and learn how it became the largest attended quilt event in the world. Japan’s journey from importer to trailblazer is a fascinating journey through Japanese history, cultural expectations, and the process by which one is deemed a ‘master quilter’ or not.
Go back in time, to a fascinating point in Japan’s history when cotton & indigo – two epic plants – forever changed Japan’s textile world. Meet the masters who are preserving the old traditions of indigo dyeing and meet the quilters who have dedicated their quiltmaking to working with antique cotton. Learn the stories behind traditional cotton textiles such as kasuri, katazome and kimono cloth and how a handful of Japanese weavers are continuing these traditions into the 21st century. Go inside Japan’s esteemed textile printing mills and hear why the finest quilting cotton in the world is currently printed in Japan.
