I would call that wearable art too. Then there are cross-over folks
like Arlene Fisch who, in the 1970s, was making knitted silver wire
jewelry. And the chain-mail-bikini crowd - wearable, but is it art?
Dunno. There's a sense in which, the first time someone makes it, it's
art; but if a bunch of other people make pretty much the same thing, is it
art anymore?
Good question. This brings to mind the question of whether or not a
recreation of, say, a Worth gown is art. Certainly it was art the first
time, but is what we're doing also art? And are we in the wrong century to
be calling our work art if we're creating a gown of a new design in a
decades-old, or centuries-old, style? Interesting point you brought up.
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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