Thursday, 21 November 2024
Textile
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'Como hacer una arpillera / How to make an arpillera', Fundación Solidaridad workshop. (Photo: Rory McCarron)
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| Title of Textile: | Como hacer una arpillera / How to make an arpillera |
| Maker: | Fundación Solidaridad workshop |
| Country of Origin: | Chile |
| Year Produced: | 2006 |
| Size (cm): | 70cm (w) x 68cm (l) |
| Materials: | Scraps of material hand sewn onto burlap |
| Type of Textile: | Arpillera |
| Description: | This piece, made in a Fundación Solidaridad supported workshop, shows us the different stages and elements of making an arpillera, from preparing the raw materials to the finished product. Here the emphasis is more on the arpillera as a craft process, rather than on bringing forth stories of repression, hardship and human rights violations, as was the case heretofore. |
| Owner: | Conflict Textiles collection |
| Location: | Conflict Textiles store |
| Original / Replica: | Original |
| Photographer: | Rory McCarron |
| Provenance: | Gift to curator Roberta Bacic from Angelica Poncé, Chile. Received 2009. (HM0724) |
| Textile exhibited at: |
Arpilleras that Cry Out, 22/06/2009 - 10/07/2009
Finding Our Voices -The Power of Arpilleras, 26/09/2009 - 30/10/2009
Threads of Life: Quilts and arpilleras that speak out, 16/10/2009 - 1/11/2009
Arpilleras habitades de memòria, 14/01/2010 - 26/02/2010
'Arpilleras Aus Chile' -Eine Retrospektive, 6/05/2010 - 28/05/2010
Arpilleras and the Poetry of Survival, 10/05/2011 - 9/06/2011
Arpilleras Poéticas y recital del poeta chileno Jaime Huenún, 10/11/2012 - 15/12/2012
Textile Voices From Our City: 2013 & Story Textiles From Around The world , 3/08/2013 - 9/10/2013
Women 31 , 7/03/2014 - 15/04/2014
Arpilleras de América Latina: Mujeres cosedoras de vida , 19/03/2016 - 24/04/2016
LA VIDA QUE SE TEJE Tejidos de América Latina por la memoria y la vida, 11/05/2016 - 10/07/2016
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