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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

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  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

  Hanging Text

  39”H x 29”W open;

  21”H x39”W  folded

  Tablet

47”H x 17”W

Domestic Archaeology

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