Sling Bag

Claire Zeisler was a Chicago textile artist who, together with Lenore Tawney and Sheila Hicks, introduced a new textile art form called "fiber art" in the mid-1960s in Europe and America. The work of these three artists—sometimes sculptural and large-scale—transformed textiles from two dimensions to three, and from wall-mounted to freestanding. Zeisler may have intended this pouch-like, three-dimensional wall piece to serve as a trial version of a much larger, as-yet-unidentified work.