Broken Dishes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33011/cuhj20242451Keywords:
relief, printmaking, quiltingAbstract
Many people view things such as sewing, quilting, knitting, and other crafts to be inferior to art and only for old ladies. In America, due to a combination of misogyny and industrialization, traditional crafting typically done by women has for a prolonged time been looked down upon and neglected to be passed along to younger generations. I want to bring these art forms attention and help younger generations learn and appreciate the essential tools our ancestors couldn’t have survived without. In the piece titled “Broken Dishes”, I based most of the carving on an antique quilt from the 19th century, which follows the broken dishes pattern. I chose to imitate this particular pattern because I felt the name broken dishes is reminiscent of the broken tradition of passing crafting down to children, and dishes alluding to another traditional woman’s job of preparing and cleaning up after meals. Quilts such as these were handcrafted, typically with scraps from clothes. These were an art form as much as they were a necessity. Currently, I am working on making a quilt with scraps of fabric from my mother’s and grandmother’s childhoods, including scraps from as early as the 1920s. This is the first quilt I have ever made, and it has been extremely meaningful to sort through pieces of family history and imagine what my great-grandmother and grandmother made out of the fabric. In the making of any quilt, an insane amount of time is put into all of the details, and I wanted my carving to be proportionally detailed. I intentionally made the triangles very small because with scrap quilts you are often forced to work with very small pieces. I chose not to use color for the prints because I felt no one color could do justice to the amazing combination of colors and patterns in scrap quilts.
Media Type: Relief
Dimensions: 10" x 12"
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