Artworks made of fiber and other textile materials, emphasizing aesthetic value over utility
Not to be confused with Textile arts.
Fiber art (fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric or yarn. It focuses on the materials and on the manual labor on the part of the artist as part of the works' significance, and prioritizes aesthetic value over utility.
Fiberart (fibre art in British spelling) refers to fine art whose material consists of natural or synthetic fiber and other components, such as fabric...
weave", "to braid" or "to construct". The simplest textile art is felting, in which animal fibers are matted together using heat and moisture. Most textile...
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fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic...
Ideas from mathematics have been used as inspiration for fiber arts including quilt making, knitting, cross-stitch, crochet, embroidery and weaving. A...
textile art and fiberart are important visual art forms across Africa and may be included in the study of African art. The term "African art" does not...
Bisa Butler (born Mailissa Yamba Butler in 1973) is an American fiber artist who has created a new genre of quilting that has transformed the medium....
unorthodox methods such as performance art, conceptual art, body art, craftivism, video, film, and fiberart. Feminist art has served as an innovative driving...
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc. At...
A fiber laser (or fibre laser in Commonwealth English) is a laser in which the active gain medium is an optical fiber doped with rare-earth elements such...
The following are notable people who were either born, raised or have lived for a significant period of time in the city of Helsinki, Finland. Lars Ahlfors...
New York City. She is considered an important innovator in the field of fiberart. Zachai was born in 1932. She worked in the off-loom weaving style to...
works and fiberart. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893 The current building complex at 111 South Michigan Avenue is the third address for the Art Institute...
including mask-making, accessory-making, ornamental metal crafts Textile (fiber) art – including headgear weaving, basketry, and fishing gear Pottery – including...
textile art and fiberart are important visual art forms across Africa and may be included in the study of African art. The term "African art" does not...
Quilt art, sometimes known as art quilting, mixed media art quilts or fiberart quilts, is an art form that uses both modern and traditional quilting...
natural fiber harvested from an alpaca. There are two different types of alpaca fleece. The most common fleece type comes from a Huacaya. Huacaya fiber grows...
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profession and personal use. At the same time, "fiberart" had become one of the most popular mediums in their art programmes. Young artists were interested...
Artificial silk or art silk is any synthetic fiber which resembles silk, but typically costs less to produce. Frequently, the term artificial silk is...
glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available...
an African-American fiber artist. Learning to quilt in the middle of her life, Magee quickly became known in the world of fiberart for her abstract and...
entrepreneur, co-founder of Esprit Holdings. Dominic Di Mare (born 1932), fiber arts, mixed media sculptor, watercolorist; born in San Francisco and lived...
textiles, to nonfunctional fiberart. They saw themselves as artists working in fiber. Rossbach explored the possibilities of fiber as a material, both on...
major retrospectives across the world. Fashion portal Textile Fiber Textile arts Fiberart Craft Basket weaving Persian weave Petate Textile manufacturing...
artist known for being part of the Mid-century modern movement creating fiberart outside the applied textile tradition. Buskirk was born on March 11, 1931...