Work Box
- Artist
- Claire Zeisler
- Date
- 1960s-70s
- 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
- Materials
- plastic, cotton (textile), glass beads, metal, wood (plant material), wool (textile)
- Dimensions
- 21.6 × 6 × 2.9 cm (8 1/2 × 2 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.)
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Credit
- Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund
Exhibition history
Cite this work
Claire Zeisler, Work Box, 1960s-70s, 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, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
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https://dartabase.art/cite/aic/229421
Nicole Williams Contemporary Textile Fund
Metadata sourced from Art Institute of Chicago open data collection
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