Artworks

Frank Connet

Wool, pieced plain weaves; resist-dyed (shibori); stitched with cotton; backed with linen, plain weave · 2003

Judy Ross

Linen, plain weave; rayon embroidery threads · 1997

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, rayon, silk, wool, and metal-foil-wrapped cotton in padded satin stitches; laid work and couching · 1996

Dianne Shullenberger

Linen, plain weave; appliquéd with cotton, acetate, polyester, and silk, plain, complementary weft plain, twill, satin and satin damask weaves; printed; machine embroidered with cotton and polyester; edged with cotton, satin weave; printed · 1995

Renate Weisz

Cotton and linen, plain weave; screen printed · 1993

Sheila Hicks

Skeins of linen, wrapped with pearl cotton, couched with linen to handmade paper with imbedded hemp fibers; backed with linen, plain weave · 1990

Evelyn Svec Ward

Linen, plain weave; applied gold leaf, Mexican hand-made paper (amate) and zacate root; embroidered with bast fibers (ixtle) and cotton · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen and cotton in back and padded overcast stitches; a variety of laid work and couching; coiling · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, hemp, silk, and cotton in a variety of laid work and couching with overcast and buttonhole bars · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns in back, buttonhole, darning, overcast, padded overcast; Roumanian, running, satin, and stem stitches; a variety of laid work and couching · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, hemp, cotton, horsehair, and silver beads in detached buttonhole, detached trammed buttonhole, and bullion knot stitches; a variety of laidwork and couching, buttonhole and overcast bars; coiling in lazy squaw stitch; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered in overcast stitches; beaded · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and silk in laidwork and couching · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and cotton threads in buttonhole stitches; laidwork and couching · 1987

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching · 1986

Helena Hernmarck

Wool, cotton, and linen, plain weave of discontinuous wefts with supplementary brocading wefts · 1986

Georgi Jaquiss

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with cotton yarns; drawn thread work in him, interlaced hem, interlocking lace, ladder hem and serpentine hem stitches; pulled thread work in double stitch filling, hem, and overcast stitches; embroidered in satin stitches. Four cent ral rectangles each with a different stitch pattern; in off-white · 1985

Dorothy Ruddick

Linen, plain weave; embroidered with cotton in darning, running and split stitches; couching; gesso, ink, and graphite · 1982

Evelyn Svec Ward

Linen, plain weave; applied Mexican hand- made paper (amate); laid palm fibers couched with cotton · 1982

Josef Frank

Linen, plain weave; screen printed · 1980

Lissy Funk

Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in stem, satin, long and short, padded satin and variations on buttonhole stitches; French knots; laid work and couching; glass beads · 1977

Eleanor Kluck

Linen, plain weave; screen printed · 1976

Alexander Girard

Linen, plain weave; screen printed · 1976

Eleanor Kluck

Cotton and linen, plain weave; screen printed · 1976

Eleanor Kluck

Linen, plain weave; screen printed · 1975