A New-to-Me Book on Hawaiian Quilting

I was out shopping yesterday and found this cool book at the Princeton, N.J., public library book sale.

It's called The Hawaiian Quilt, and it's a guide to the collection of Hawaiian quilts at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. It features 120-odd pages of photos and history behind 62 or so quilts (there is a two-page spread for every quilt) and history of Hawaiian quilting and some of the various cultural institutions in Hawaii that preserve and display Hawaiian quilts. Curated by Reiko Mochinaga Brandon of the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the text is in both English and Japanese.

It's not a how-to on making Hawaiian quilts but it will teach those interested in the subject a bit about the different styles and trends in traditional Hawaiian quiltmaking. 

I love Hawaii and Hawaiian quilts; I've made a couple of small pillow-sized Hawaiian-style quilts and have a lap-sized traditional-style Hawaiian quilt that I purchased on Maui hanging in my sewing room. This book features primarily the traditional appliqued style of Hawaiian quilting although there is one log-cabin quilt. The subjects of the quilts come from politics and nature and the book offers a brief history lesson of the islands alongside an appreciation for this beautiful and important art form.