Word: fiberwork
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Indian style, with a back panel woven of nearly 40,000 beads. The labor and time entailed in all this are meant to remind us of the vast anonymous efforts expended by women through the centuries on supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious medium of visual discourse. So they do-at times movingly; and it is well to keep in mind how many of the vestments, arrases and other trappings whose function was to affirm male power, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the sacerdotal wardrobes of the church, were actually made by women...