Ten Thousand-Piece Quilt

Yoshiko Jinzenji, artist

born 1942

Ten Thousand-Piece Quilt, 1999

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: quilting; cotton; natural dye

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 200 x 200 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 78 3/4 x 78 3/4 in

Credit line: Gift of the artist

Accession number: 2007.0101

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
“Quilting Time and Space,” Jun-2010, Rachel Voorhies
Yoshiko Jinzenji first encountered quilts in
1970, when she discovered two handmade
Mennonite quilts in the furniture section of Eaton’s Department Store in Toronto. Discovering handstitched Mennonite quilts at the local Farmer’s Market further inspired her to study quilting, and she began to produce quilts that responded to North American quilting traditions. After ten years in Canada, she returned to Japan and began to study Asian fabric traditions, especially dying culture. This quilt is made up of ten thousand scraps of cotton colored with natural dyes that Jinzenji makes from the plants and fruits around her studio in Bali, Indonesia.