I love this latest example of fibre/fiber arts entering the mainstream via new editions of Penguin Classics embroidered by artist Jillian Tamaki, available in October.
P.S. In case you were wondering:
Fibre Arts: A broad term that covers various types of modern work that are made with fibre but which are distinct from traditional categories such as tapestry.
‘The use and development of non-traditional materials in art, combined with feminist consciousness about the relationship between certain materials and processes and women’s cultural and historical traditions, led to an intense questioning of art traditions … The idea of using fabric as an art material both summed up the iconoclasm of the 1970s and established a context within which to mount a feminist challenge to the way art history honored certain materials and certain processes instead of others.’ (Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society, 1990) (encyclopedia.com)
Whoa, how’s that for a highfalutin definition.
Lorraine Keeler
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meredith
Love these! lots of work, and beautiful Thanks for sharing!