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Artifact #3

  20"h x 18"w

   Evidence of

Textile Production

    29"h x 32"w

Artifact

13" x13"

     By combining salvaged needlework with  text,  images and ceramic impressions, I am creating work

  that is both quilted art and textile archaeology. Images of old crochet and lace are printed on found cloth

  along with instructional text for making crochet and lace (the crochet abbreviations form a kind of secret

  code). Remnants of the needlework are hand sewn onto their printed images.

Textiles are fragile. At many archaeological sites, ceramic loom weights and textile impressions in

  hardened clay are the only remaining evidence of ancient cloth production – everything else

  disintegrated long ago.  In recognition of this history, I create ceramic impressions of needlework, which

  I have started to include in my constructions.

My work is presented in the context of domestic usage: stretched on folding frames (constructed

  from old wooden drying racks), sewn into modified sewing boxes and lashed to the reconfigured legs of

  old wooden ironing boards.

Excavation

  Site #1

                                Chest

        11"h x 17"w x3"d closed  11"h x 26"w x3"d open

                Ancient Text #2

    21”H x 40”W open; 21”H x 22”W closed

Clothespin Shrine

open 46”H x 30”W; closed 22”H x 30”W  x 3”D

Click on these thumbnails for larger image:

              Ancient Text

23”H x 39”W open; 23”H x 20”W closed

                   Ancient Text #3

  open 25”H x 37”W; closed 25”H x 22”W  x 3”D

Sieves 4-6" each

These images do not open

             Hanging Text

Size:  39”H x 29”W open; 21”H x39”W

           with hangers folded in.

            Tablet

    Size: 47”H x 17”W

.Domestic Archaeology