Three Friends
Hand-appliquéd fiber collage using treasured antique kimono remnants, both Japanese hand-dyed, hand-woven cotton indigo (aizome) and Okinawan hand-woven bast fiber cloth made from the … More Three Friends »
Portfolio Tags: MAB Exhibition
Woodlands
Hand-appliquéd intuitive fiber collage in autumnal landscape colors using both Japanese vintage cotton and newer, commercially produced cotton. The remnants are sewn by hand … More Woodlands »
End of Summer
Fiber collage of cotton remnants – both new and old, both American and Japanese, both hand-dyed and commercially-produced – that are appliquéd by hand … More End of Summer »
YUKATA Play
Using Japanese vintage hand-stencil-dyed Japanese cotton yukata kimono sample swatches from the dyers, this mostly blue and white wall hanging is machine-pieced and machine-quilted. … More YUKATA Play »
Indigo Patchwork
Machine-pieced, machine quilted wall hanging drawing materials from my sacred box of Japanese vintage hand-dyed (aizome), hand-woven (kasuri), and hand-tie-dyed (shibori) indigo cotton kimono … More Indigo Patchwork »
Star of Fortitude (A Self Portrait from 1991)
For this work, I modified a traditional Pineapple Log Cabin quilt pattern to make my own design: A shooting star somewhere in the universe … More Star of Fortitude (A Self Portrait from 1991) »
All Buttoned Up
Small quilted wall hanging. Machine pieced top with both hand and machine quilting using Japanese vintage hand-dyed, hand-woven indigo and also Japanese commercially produced … More All Buttoned Up »
New Year’s Day
Machine-pieced and machine quilted wall hanging with select kimono remnants including Japanese vintage hand-dyed aizome indigo, Japanese vintage hand-woven cotton kasuri, and Japanese hand-tie-dyed … More New Year’s Day »
Triflora 1
Hand-stitched floral motif using Japanese sashiko-style embroidery on Japanese hand-dyed, hand-woven vintage indigo by the hands and heart of master dyer Terumasa Tanaka of … More Triflora 1 »
Cosmic Travel 2: Elliptical Passage
Japanese sashiko-style hand embroidery onto vintage hand-dyed, hand-woven indigo by Japanese master dyer Terumasa Tanaka of Fukuoka, bordered with Japanese commercially produced cottons and … More Cosmic Travel 2: Elliptical Passage »