Interview with Nao Nomura, March 02, 2007

Project: Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: Nebraska

Interview Summary

Nomura, the interviewee, discusses the patchwork MacBook case she has present with her at the interview, her history and interests in quilting, what she thinks makes a good quilt, and her current position as collections manager at a quilt research center.

Interview Accession

2019oh1053_qsosne0002

Interviewee Name

Nao Nomura

Interviewer Name

Janneken Smucker

Interview Date

2007-03-02

Interview Keyword

Quilts Patchworks American textiles MacBook cases Japanese textiles Family gifts Quilt exhibitions American history Quilts as art Quilt research

Interview LC Subject

Art festivals. Art--Commissioning. Arts and crafts. Quilting. Quilts. Quilts--Design. Quilts in interior decoration. Quilts--United States--Exhibitions. Quilts in art Patchwork quilts.

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Nomura, Nao Interview by Janneken Smucker. 02 Mar. 2007. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Nomura, N. (2007, March 02). Interview by J. Smucker. Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: Nebraska. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Nomura, Nao, interview by Janneken Smucker. March 02, 2007, Quilt Alliance’s Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories Oral History Project: Nebraska, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

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