Japanese quilter Noriko Kido struggles to explain the differences between American and Japanese quilts. "Bee-beat," she says, but gets no reaction. She tries again, then consults the battery-operated ...

Inside what initially seems like a well-appointed quilt shop with bolts of fabrics and quilt-making equipment are a few rooms devoted to the museum-quality display of quilts. It’s there that, on April ...

Japan is not often associated with quilting in the popular imagination. In reality, however, artists have been blending fundamental quilting methods with traditional aesthetics for decades. These ...

OSKALOOSA — Elke Lassiter, of Ozawkie, holds up her quilt as she explains to other members of the Kansa Prairie Quilters Club that the pattern came from a Japanese quilting book. Behind her, women sit ...