Work Box
Claire Zeisler
1960–1979
- Medium
- Plastic box containing metal needles of various sizes; ball-head pins; sewing needle; ball head knitting needles; wire thread guides; cotton floss wrapped wooden dowels; knitting needle with glass beads, jute balls wrapped in cotton in simple loop stitch; knitting needle with jute ball wrapped in cotton in simple loop stitches and wrapped with cotton floss; bast fiber coils ("slinky") sample fragments; bast fiber coil ("slinky") sample fragment wrapped in wool; cluster of cotton coils
- Dimensions
- 21.6 × 6 × 2.9 cm (8 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
mixed mediasewing boxescotton (textile)wool (textile)plasticfiber artChicagoconstructionChicago artistassemblage (sculpture technique)wood (plant material)20th CenturyTextileglass beadsmetal
About
Some of Zeisler's small, playful pieces were fashioned with the implements and materials held in this little work box. Perhaps she used this container during travel, much in the way that textile artist Sheila Hicks traveled with a miniature loom.
