Bamboo White Sample Quilt

Yoshiko Jinzenji, artist

born 1942

Bamboo White Sample Quilt, 1998

Portfolio/Series title: Bamboo White series

Where object was made: Japan

Material/technique: bamboo dye; silk; piecing

Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 222 x 184 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 87 3/8 x 72 7/16 in

Credit line: Gift of the artist

Accession number: 2007.0106

Not on display

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"Personal Geometry: Quilts by Yoshiko Jinzenji and Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell," Feb-2014, Susan Earle and Cassandra Mesick
Jinzenji’s contributions to the fiber arts extend beyond her quilts. She discovered how to create a white dye from natural materials-bamboo stalks-and described the first length of silk she treated with bamboo as “a prism sparkling with colors like pink, yellow and green. It was a white with depths.” The Bamboo White Sample Quilt pieces together small rectangular segments of bamboo-dyed silk created over years through painstaking experimentation. Here, different textures of the silk combine with varied concentrations of bamboo dye to produce a rich spectrum of powerful whites.