Being Featured
Recently, when in Houston at the Quilt Festival a representative of the publishing company Nihon Vogue Ltd. brought us a copy of the 1st issue of their new magazine “Quilt World”. We knew that a copy was in the mail to our home address but we had not received a copy before leaving France. At Quilt Festival it happened that people we met referred to that new magazine – in particular to an article featuring Inge, how she worked and how our teamwork in the studio unfolds. Understandably we were curious to see how this new magazine presented itself.
We knew that the article was laid out well in terms of text and images. But it is not the same as seeing it in print, getting a feel for how images were reproduced and how the article per se had found its place in the overall flow of the magazine.
When it comes to printing and reproduction of images, I truly am a nit-picker – have always been and cannot help it. I knew that the printing quality of the catalogue for the 8th Quilt Nihon Exhibition was superb, but one thing is a catalogue for a specific prestigious exhibition, another thing is the printing of a monthly magazine.
I was not disappointed with what met my eyes, and that was a pleasure in itself. But I have too admit that the closest I come to reading Japanese is the English version of “I am a Cat” by Soseki Natsume, which I’m currently reading – so what regards the written content of the article I have to resort to the knowledge of the input for the article provided by us in English.
For the time being, that is. Because next time we meet with our Japanese friends or those knowledgeable of the Japanese language, I will kindly ask them to read it for me in English, slowly – and I will leisurely lean back and enjoy every word of it!
Oh, I forgot to mention – with a smile – that the editor had included an image from our blog where the little fellow is walking in the Pennines. I found that amusing, and I’m sure he’s very proud of being featured nation-wide in Japan…