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ANTIQUE GEOMETRIC QUILT DESIGNS
JAPANESE FLOWER
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JAPANESE FLOWER
(piecing grid after Cabot) | Quilt Notes: JAPANESE FLOWER (aka JAPANESE POPPY) is illustrated in Rhoda Ochser Goldberg's' QUILTING AND PATCHWORK DICTIONARY, 1988. The design was first published, according to Barbara Brackman, by Nancy Cabot (Loretta Leitner Rising) in the Chicago Tribune in March, 1936 (see ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PIECED QUILT PATTERNS, #2135). Online browse other quilt sites with illustrations and templates. The piecing diagram left follows Cabot's version — in her column, she comments on why she is illustrating this summer flower in spring (notice her intutive combination of the commonplace within elegance):
"JAPANESE POPPY is one of the floral designs seen on various clothes lines when quilts are put out for their spring airing. One is apt to see more quilts of this pattern in small towns throughout the country than in the city. Ohio is identified as the birthplace of the quilt illustrated today, a coverlet composed of a combination of pieced and plain materials. The blocks are set together in an alternate arrangement, and only 15 applique and 15 plain blocks are used."
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Traditional Japanese art and poetry works with a sentiment called aware, which translates into something like poignancy, but evoking great depth emotionally, especially in matters of love and longing. So the fabric with droplets, rain or tears was used for the design upper right. Ono no Komachi, though flourishing so long ago in history, is still one of the most revered tanka poets in Japan today. Once a young beauty, she lived a very long life, but her poetry never faded. The following from Hyaku-nin Isshu,
trans. by F. V. Dickins, 1866.
A JAPANESE FLOWER
(faded after long rains)
by Ono no Komachi (9th c.)
Flower's tints have faded;
alas! that I advance
in years in this world
is a circumstance
which causes men to glance at me.
JAPANESE FLOWER creates a secondary 12-sided dodecagon in the tiling pattern. Here are more examples at this site of blocks with exquisite secondary circular designs, created by straight-edge polygons:
• ARROWHEADS (dodecagon)
• BLOCK STAR (irregular dodecagon)
• GRANDMA'S SURPRISE (octagon)
• BEAUTIFUL STAR (dodecagon)
• PIGEON TOES (octagon)
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