What is fiber? The word is used to describe materials like thread, yard, or felt and to classify objects made from them, such as quilts and baskets. The materials can be natural, man-made, or a combination of both. Fiber is the world's oldest craft medium. Originally used to make everyday objects, today fiber is also used to create works of art. Artists can weave, stitch, and otherwise manipulate this highly flexible medium into two- and three-dimensional works in every conceivable shape, size, and aesthetic.
For more than two millennia, artists and artisans have used tapestry weaving and embroidery to make fiber "pictures," but it was not until the mid-twentieth century that artists began to fully explore fiber as an expressive medium. They began to investigate what weaver Anni Albers called "the language of thread." This language refers to both the formal properties of fiber -- line, color, texture -- and the significance of textile objects in the human story. Albers and her mid-twentieth-century colleagues -- including Sheila Hicks, Ed Rossbach, Lenore Tawney, Mariska Karasz, and Claire Zeisler -- adopted and adapted traditional textile genres for their own expression. Quilts became wall art, baskets became sculpture,and cloth became a vehicle for commenting on contemporary society.
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