A surprising Japanese presence in a traditional American craft

A surprising Japanese presence in a traditional American craftQuilting connects continents As American as baseball and apple pie. That is the perception many people have of the craft of quiltmaking—not without reason. In “The Little House on the Prairie”, an iconic book series depicting the life of settlers in the Midwest in the 1870s, Laura and Mary learn patchworking skills as children. American

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“The Japanese entries tend to dominate the handwork categories. First, second and third in the hand-quilting category, plus the honourable mention, all went to Japanese submissions, as did the overall prize for best hand-workmanship. Japan has a long tradition of hand-embroidering”