If Chivalry Is Dead, Women Have Killed It

I am interested in the dual meaning of pattern. Pattern is a design format used for decoration. By introducing certain images into patterns, they have the ability to give meaning or messages. The repetition of a certain image emphasizes importance to a particular idea or issue. I embroider pattern designs onto pre-manufactured clothing pattern pieces as a response to things in society that I find absurd. This body of work focuses on female iconography. The delicate nature of these materials lends themselves to feminine associations. Embroidery, which is stereotypically associated with women's work, is used to play on these clichés.Patterns also are instructions. The original intent for these pattern pieces was to construct a wearable garment. I am using these specifically shaped pieces to create flat representational images on the wall to point to the "roles" that people undertake consciously or unconsciously in their lives.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Crafts

Year dc:date.available

2005

Author dc:creator

• Heimbach, Nicole

Contributors dc:contributor

• Susan Iverson

• fiber
• embroidery
• pattern
• exhibition
• textile
• Arts and Humanities
• Fine Arts

Statement dc:rights

• © The Author

Identifier

https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1394

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarscompass.vcu.edu:etd-2393