This project started with a found image of a hooked rug made in America in the 1870s. These craft projects were made with industrial-produced tin patterns. They became popular as the textile industry industrialized allowing for a rise in factory-made textiles and clothes. This fact that a homemade craft was undergirded by industrialization muddies the supposed purity of craftwork. This also points to the rise of leisure and hobby culture for women of a certain class and racial subset.
The project is based on that initial image of a handmade rug that I transferred and duplicated via rubbing and printing with laser-cut plates. The project was installed in a shed during my residency at Parts & Labor in San Antonio.
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