Fiber Art
Museums worldwide display exhibits of Medieval and Renaissance period tapestries as well as richly decorated royal and religious garments. Modern western culture has seemingly relegated fiber art such as weaving, stitching and embroidery to the mundane status of domestic skills. Women today fundamentally perform these chores, however the practice of fiber art in some cultures and during specific time periods in others, were often primarily the domain of men.
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DecorativeIn Finland, the weaving of a Rya was customarily commissioned to celebrate a wedding day. The Rya tapestry, which has similarities to a knotted Persian carpet is comprised of hand woven rows of weft alternating with rows of knotted yarn. The hand weaving of Ryas continues to be practiced in Finland in both traditional designs as well as modern variations of the customary designs.
WearableFashion art tracked and echoed trends in modern art during the first half of the twentieth century. Emergent artistic trends were evident in the development of fashion design; from the corseted S-curve that reflected Art Nouveau style to the tubular un-corseted images that arrived prior to the First World War, fallowed by the streamlined dresses of the 1930s.
