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Chris Lee Roberts-Antieau (born November 18, 1950) is an American fiber artist based in Michigan.She described her work as "embroidered tapestries", created with the use of fabric appliqué, thread painting, and hand embroidery.
Harriet Powers (October 29, 1837 – January 1, 1910) [1] was an American folk artist and quilter born into slavery in rural northeast Georgia. Powers used traditional appliqué techniques to make quilts that expressed local legends, Bible stories, and astronomical events.
Letter cutting is a form of inscriptional architectural lettering closely related to monumental masonry and stone carving, often practised by artists, sculptors, and typeface designers. Rather than traditional stone carving, where images and symbols are the dominant features, in letter cutting the unique skill is "meticulous setting out and ...
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When her agent, Frederick Karoly, retired and returned her unsold design samples, Westphal cut them up and sewed them back together, collage-style, to make "art to wear" and art quilts. [8] Her quilts were shown at Museum West in San Francisco and the Museum of Contemporary Craft in New York. [ 9 ]
Elaine Reichek (born 1943) is a New York-based visual artist. Much of her work concerns the history of the embroidered sampler.Through her pieces of hand and machine embroidery and digital sewing machine, she addresses issues such as the craft/art and the old/new divide, the nature of women's work, and the interplay of text and image. [1]