Rejecting traditional notions of what constitutes art, this book
brings together essays on a variety of fiber arts to recoup women's
artistic practices by redefining what counts as art. Although
scholars over the last twenty years have turned their attention to
fiber arts, redefining the conditions, practices, and products as
art, there is still much work to be done to deconstruct the
stubborn patriarchal art/craft binary. With essays on a range of
fiber art practices, including embroidery, knitting, crocheting,
machine stitching, rug making, weaving, and quilting, this
collection contributes to the ongoing scholarly redefinition of
women's relationship to creative activity. Focusing on women as
producers of cultural products and creators of social value, the
contributors treat women as active subjects and problematize their
material practices and artifacts in the complex world of textiles.
Each essay also examines the ways in which needlework both performs
gender and, in turn, constructs gender. Moreover, in concentrating
on and theorizing material practices of textiles, these essays
reorient the study of fiber arts towards a focus on process"the
making of the object, including the conditions under which it was
made, by whom, and for what purpose"as a way to rethink the fiber
arts as social praxis.
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