"The way we live is in all the fabrics we use," says Yoshie Tokutake. "Fabric leaves a history of each person who wore it.”
Yoshie Tokutake uses repurposed indigo fabrics in her strip-pieced art quilts. In this Textile Talk, we visit her studio and gallery in Matsumoto City, Nagano, Japan.
“I never imagined this life for myself," she says. "I just couldn't waste the fabric, so I kept creating with it, and here I am today."
Yoshie is interviewed by Naomi Ichikawa, chief editor of Yomiuri Quilt Time Magazine. This interview was recorded in Japanese and will be shown with English subtitles.
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00:00 Introduction
06:40 Slideshow of Yoshie Tokutake's art quilts
08:27 Interview begins
45:03 Slideshow of Yoshie Tokutake's art quilts
46:50 Conclusion and thank you
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