Etsy - ArtisanandArtifact Antique Pair, Textile Fragments
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We come into contact with textile art every day. From the clothes we wear to the objects that decorate our home, it's an art that can be simultaneously beautiful & useful. But it should come as no surprise that this field occupies these two categories. At the beginning of its long history, textiles were seen as a utility rather than something that serves no discernible function aside from aesthetics. & while this is still the case today, visionary creatives have helped the art continually reinvent itself. Textile art is one of the oldest forms of art in human civilization. At its inception, it was not focused on looks, but for practical purposessuch as clothing or blankets to keep warm. This dates all the way back to prehistoric times, & anthropologists estimate that this is between 100,000 to 500,000 years ago. These goods were made from animal skins, furs, leaves, & more. As time wore on & the neolithic cultures settled, textiles become increasingly complex. Many early pieces were made with felting, which agitates animal fibers (like wool) to interlock them in a strong bond. Beyond that, though, humans also spun fibers to create strands of thread. They were woven together & resemble more of what we're used to today. Creating clothing & other textiles was laboriouseverything had to be done by hand. This included gathering fibers from plants or animals & then twisting them to make it into yarn. in addition to being a tedious process, making an article of clothing was expensive; tailors & seamstresses altered garments to ensure that they lasted a long time. Depending on how wealthy someone was, they could get imported fabrics & colorful dyes. The Silk Road trade routes brought Chinese silk to India, Africa, & Europe. While clothing was still the dominant type of fiber art, the aristocracy could also afford to decorate the walls, floors, & furniture of their palaces in lush & vibrant pieces. The Industrial Revolution was a turning point for textiles. With the invention of the cotton gin, spinning jenny, & power loom, creating fabric was now automated & could be produced on a massive scale. Textiles were not just for the wealthy anymore; as prices dropped, they were available to more of society. It also meant that these materials were not as precious, & creative people could experiment with them in previously unseen ways. The rich history of textiles has laid the groundwork for contemporary creatives. in modern times, the terms fiber art or textile art generally describe textile-based objects that have no intended use. Although this realm has previously been seen as women's work, artistsparticularly female artists in the 1960s & 70sstarted to reclaim the field & elevate it into high art. Handloomed, these two shadow-box frames feature ancient textiles from the Far East. Both complex & delicate, these textiles are a fragment from a larger textile. Both preserved in a matching color way shadow box frames. The pair feature both a ruby toned fabric
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