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Teresa Duryea Wong has written extensively about Japanese quilts. Shop her three books – each one covering a completely different part of Japan’s quilt world. Teresa has also written the story of the two women who changed quilting forever when they founded the International Quilt Festival. In addition, Teresa has researched and studied Native American quilts and is the author of “Sewing & Survival: Native American Quilts from 1880 – 2022.”

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Teresa Duryea Wong is an author, lecturer, and quilt historian. She has written/co-authored seven books. Teresa’s lectures focus on Japanese quilts and textiles, American quilt collectors, and working with unfinished antique quilt tops. She has appeared on numerous quilting programs and podcasts and presented hundreds of lectures to quilt guilds and festivals throughout the US, Canada, the UK, France, and South Korea.

There is a culture of cuteness in Japan that is so pervasive it has its own name, Kawaii. These days, Kawaii means almost anything cool, beautiful, or nice, including a new genre of quilts that Naomi Ichikawa & Teresa Duryea Wong have dubbed Kawaii quilts. In this joint lecture, you’ll hear how an obscure set of laws in the 1600s set an entire country on a course to adore tiny things, plus how centuries of Hina Matsuri celebrations have influenced quilting. We’ll introduce Yoko Sekita, Aki Sakai, Reiko Kato, Akiko Yoshimizu, Megumi Mizuno, and Hiroko Akita and show incredible close-up images of their stunning quilts which are covered with tens of thousands of tiny patches of appliqué. Naomi will share her expertise through a series of high-quality, pre-recorded videos, and Teresa will be live to tell the rest of the story. Kawaii Appliqué Quilts from Japan is available now for pre-order.

Quilt research inside the archives of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. And of course all good quilt study requires a great photo. My research focused on a collection of mid-20th century quilts made in the Great Plains region. You can read more about these quilts and their makers in my new book “Sewing & Survival.”