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Like many trying out new hobbies during the pandemic, I began learning how to crochet and sew. I quickly grew fond of the medium and later realized the amount of work that goes into crocheting—work that often goes unrecognized due to its ties with domestic chores and the work of women.
This inspired the topic of my undergraduate thesis and led me to the research question of “Since the 1970s, how has feminism influenced fibre arts?” After completing a literary review and additional research, I curated and designed this book to help draw more attention to different works and artists in one place, to show the depth of this field, and to display the often overlooked history that fibre art has with feminism.
It was important for me to focus my thesis around the themes of labour and feminism to analyze the politics of craft and fibre arts.
The final work of the book, titled “Unoccupied Histories” is a series of crocheted pieces that I made inspired by my thoughts, feelings, and reflections towards feminism in contemporary society as I worked on the book. It was important for me to finish this collection with one of my own works—one that was created during the completion of this book and inspired by all the artists that I have researched, studied, and highlighted for the 8 months I worked on this project. It is a capstone of everything I had learned and, hopefully, symbolic of everything that this art form continues to move toward.
I am the artist and designer I am today because of all the artists and designers before me who were bold, unafraid, and used their work to not only try to end sexism, but all forms of oppression that are so intertwined.
Last updated: 2026-06-22
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